I just spent two weeks working in Wyoming with a Massachusetts based youth leadership program called C5 New England. The five year program works with inner city youth guiding them toward leadership competence and community engagement. Every year the third year teens participate in an eight day hiking trip through the Big Horn Mountains. The experience is no small matter and is meant to challenge the teens in a new and stressful environment. The end result is hard to express in words or pictures. These teens leave this experience with a whole new perpective that will, no doubt, influence them for the rest of their lives.











