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She Explores

Laying the Groundwork: Starting Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps

She Explores

Gale Straub

Road Trips, Sports, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Society & Culture, Creativity, Wilderness, Hiking, Places & Travel, Outdoor Women, Camping, Outdoors

4.6914 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Agnes Vianzon has been working hard. After years of experience with the California Conservation Corps (CCC), Agnes decided to take start her own Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps, self-described as a youth and young adult "development and leadership program committed to building a stronger and more inclusive community... through transformational backcountry experiences."

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0:00.0

This episode of She Explorers is brought to you by Oru Kayak.

0:05.0

They design folding kayaks that can go virtually anywhere,

0:09.0

thanks to their lightweight and folding design.

0:12.0

Stay tuned for later in the episode. I'll share my first

0:15.0

experience paddling in an Oreo kayak in Aquatic Park, San Francisco. I'm Gail Straub and you're listening to She Explores. Before we get started, a couple of quick updates.

0:32.0

First, on Bonanza Flats from episode 30, thanks to many

0:36.8

donors and the hard work of Wendy Fisher, the director of Utah Open Lands,

0:41.3

as well as individuals like our guest Bridget Minehold.

0:46.0

Park City is moving forward to purchase the land so we'll not turn into a development.

0:51.2

Really great news for Bridget and for everyone involved in that community.

0:55.1

Hopefully there'll be some wins for some less privileged areas as well.

1:00.5

Second update, we're doing a pre-sale on She Explorers Tank Tops.

1:05.0

It's been a very long time since I've been able to stock logo teas of any sort, so I'm pretty

1:11.0

excited. You can find them by clicking the shop button in the upper right

1:15.2

hand corner of she hyphen explorers.com. Okay on with this week's show.

1:22.3

In a backcountry camp, there isn't currency, there isn't money, you know, like everyone has to do

1:27.4

their part.

1:29.2

This is a trail crew camp, but even if you're backpacking with a group, someone should filter water and

1:34.1

someone's gonna start making dinner and gathering firewood, you know, these things that

1:38.7

have to be done in order to just settle in for the knife.

1:43.0

This is Agnes Vianzen.

1:46.0

A couple of weeks ago, I attended an outdoor women's summit in San Francisco.

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