the stage, but his soliloquy is directed mostly at one young man. Luke Teschner, a 20-year-old croo rookie whose father worked in the huts in the 1970s, is single-handedly cooking dinner for the 20 guests at Galehead tonight. Teschner is a lanky and discount tiffany bracelet-mannered kid, soft-spoken and humble. He sports a blonde crew cut and a neat black earring in his left ear, and earlier he confided that he's a bit freaked out by the whole culinary thing. "Before this summer," he says, "I never cooked anything. I mean, like nothing. At school, I go to the dining hall. But the recipe book they have here? It's awesome! You follow the instructions - this much sugar, that much flour-and it works. It's cool!" Teschner ignores the
cookbook now, though, as he bends over an index card headed "Mom's Vegetarian Chili." The card is discount tiffany earring in red Magic Marker, with a little heart drawn up in the corner. Nearby, on the stove, there are three pans of fresh herb bread still warm from the oven. Sanford steps toward them with a knife. "Actually," Teschner says, "I only made enough for..." But before he can finish, Sanford rips off a heel slice and starts chomping. "Dude," he calls out to hismores apply. Every summer, for instance, hut workers seek to distinguish themselves by "packing a century" - that is, by lugging a full 100 pounds into a hut, usually with a plain wooden friend Alex May. "There's some knockout herb discount tiffany necklace
here. Get involved!" Within 10 minutes, a full loaf is history. And all Luke Teschner can do is stand there and glower and hope that this chili dinner - the second meal he has ever cooked in his life - will come off OK. ITS NOT EASY GETTING AJOB ON CROO. THIS YEAR, MORE THAN 130 people applied for 20 open positions. And the appeal of the work is not immediately obvious. There you are, up in the mountains, cut off from all frontcountry pleasuresFacebook, school buds, beach parties, whatever-and obliged (at least at Galehead) to live for 10 weeks in a cramped 10-foot-by- 10-foot bunk room with four other staff, each of whom often goes more than a week without bathing. (Croo members work 11 days on, three days off.) The social scene can gel confining and testy. Still, life is delightfully slow-paced. Workers help out with breakfast and dinner, and typically have afternoons off. In their free time, they'll spend hours handwriting letters to friends, or
updating journals, or enjoying picnics on mountaintops. They hike almost daily, and on my first stay at Galehead, Nick Anderson decides to discount tiffany ring out and climb a trail that scales 1,100 feet - ascending South Twin Mountain in less than a mile. Anderson, 21, is Galehead's assistant hutmaster, and a rallier serious youth who often wears a pin-striped, blue-and-white oxford shirt while interacting with guests. ("You look fantastic," Sanford tells him, "straight out of the summer Polo catalog.") Short and sturdy, with curly black hair and a frequent black stubble on his chin, he does look quite dashing. He's a fast hiker, too. Once, he made it to Greenleaf Hut - 7.7 miles away, and over two mountains and through a
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