After months pitching Youth Leadership Adventures (YLA) trips to classrooms of stoic students, sending countless emails and texts,and watching our enrollment numbers tick up, students rolled into Newhalem Creek Campground on a hot, buggy day in early July. As the 15-person van emptied out quietly I snuck around to the drivers side and greeted Neal, our Youth Leadership Manager, with an excited smile. Students were finally here! 

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