[Cdt-l] CDT Integration

[Bob Sartini]

When we first moved to VT many years ago. We went off into the woods
exploring and  "got turned around". We approached a house to find out where
we were.  When we told the owner we came through the woods he said " I've
lived here ten years and have never been in that woods, there are animals
out there". he was white from NJ. So I doubt it's a race based thing but
certainly urban people have "nature deficit disorder"

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:43 PM, David Thibault <dthibaul07 at gmail.com> wrote:

> There definitely is a lot less minorities then there should be.  I have
> run into a few Hispanic women but hardly any males,  I think it might be a
> cultural thing.
>
> I do remember a guy on the AT calling the urban youth groups "hoods in the
> woods" programs.
> I thought it was great that these folks (mostly kids) got the chance to
> head out into the woods for a few days.
>
> I remember talking with one guy (teenager) as I walked into an AT shelter
> with a bunch of berries I'd picked on the way in - he asked in a surprised
> way "You can eat those?"  He had been walking by them all day and never
> considered you could just find things to eat in the woods.
>
> I also remember a Marine I met many years ago telling me the first time he
> ever left New York City was at age 18 - to go to Camp Lejuene in North
> Carolina - and how it really freaked him out to be in the woods surrounded
> by trees.  He said his unease started on the bus ride there and lasted for
> months.
>
> Having grown up hiking, camping, and fishing in the woods I was blown away
> that he was completely on edge being in the woods.  He told me
> he though animals were going to attack him every minute.
>
> We need more minorities in the woods - the trails (wild areas) need all
> the friends/support they can get....
>
> Day-Late (white middle aged guy)
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>> black and maybe 5% Asian and I can't recall meeting anyone that I
>> understood to be Hispanic.  On the AT I've met dozens if not hundreds of
>> "urban" youth groups out for a week or so.
>>
>> >
>> > We've all noticed when we go outdoors that every white middle aged guy
>> > goes outdoors but not enough minorities.
>> >
>
>
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