We have put together another all-star staff to run the Camp Dodge Programs and the North Country Volunteer Vacations. Many of our staff have had experience with the Camp Dodge programs or have even been volunteers in our programming.
This experienced and energetic staff is really looking forward to a summer on the trails. Take a look at our staff line up below and be sure to say hello when you are around Camp Dodge. You might even be lucky enough to spend a week or more with several of the outstanding individuals.
From the office of the North Country Trails Volunteer Programs Supervisor - Have a great field season on the trails! - Alex
North Country Trails Volunteer Programs Supervisor
Alex DeLucia
I have been working with AMC Trails and the Camp Dodge Volunteer Trail Crew Programs since 2001. Originally from New Haven, CT, I attended Unity College in Maine and have a degree in Adventure Education/Art.
I am very much looking forward to another safe, successful, and productive summer season. I wish the Camp Dodge Staff for the 2008 season the best of luck. and I hope to get on the trails with many of our volunteers this year.
North Country Trails Volunteer Projects Coordinator
Ali Kosiba
April, 2008 marks one whole year working as the Projects Coordinator/Field Supervisor/Jill-of-all-Trades for the Trails Department at the AMC. Considering my transient past, this is not only a big deal for me, but speaks highly of the program and mountains here.
Originally from Massachusetts, I first got into the joys of trail construction working in 100 plus degree heat in Southern Utah. Miraculously, I’ve found that I really like hard labor and inclimate weather. Since then I have worked at a number of conservation-based non-profits and government agencies around the country and even taken these skills abroad.
By far the best part of my job is seeing the dramatic changes in eating habits of our teenage volunteers after a few days in the field: tortillas filled with trail mix, dried apricots, tuna, peanut butter and Oreos. If you volunteer for the trails in the Whites this summer you’ll indubitably see me out on the trail in my white hardhat.
Anya Skibbie
This summer at Dodge will be my eighth season with the AMC. I have worked in a number of other departments and I am psyched to get involved in the Trails department. I am a native New Hampshirite and I have been tramping around the Whites since I was an infant in a backpack.
I first decided that I would like to work for the AMC when I was eleven hiking with my family, and started up as soon as I could. Since then I have become very interested in cooking and have spent time cooking for big groups of people during a season at a restaurant in Gorham, a season on the croo at Mizpah, and a stint cooking at the Buffalo Field Campaign in Montana.
I can’t wait to have Dodge open and running this season, and I am stoked to cook for all of the hungry crews. Now that the snow is melting and the buds are popping all that Dodge needs is volunteers to make it feel like summer, and I am ready for barbeques and volunteers! See you all at Dodge!
Leslie Ham
Last summer was my first initiation to the Whites and I fell in love with the alpine zones and history of the area while working on the Randolph Mountain Club's trail crew. I stayed on in the Fall to caretake, but spent the winter learning to ski in Alta, Utah. I can't wait to get back on the trail and get the Dodge season movin'.
Nick Scott
I’m definitely the new guy in town with the trail crew staff at Camp Dodge this year. Even though I’ve grown up in both Maine and Vermont, somehow I’ve managed to not do much exploring on foot in the Whites. The past couple of years I’ve enjoyed the spring skiing at Tuckerman’s and Gulf of Slides, and have been captivated by the ample above tree-line terrain that the Whites offer.
Here’s a little bit about what I’ve been doing leading up to this field season. I grew up in Newport, Maine until my family moved to Woodstock, Vermont when I was in 5th grade. I went to Bucknell University and graduated with a BA in Environmental Studies in 2004. Since then I’ve traveled back and forth across the US a couple of times pursuing seasonal outdoorsy jobs, new mountains to explore, and new friendships to be had. I’ve worked for the Maine Conservation Corps as both a member and crew leader. I worked at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area as a lift operator. I went to Oregon and California to be a raft guide on the Rogue, Klamath, and S. Fork American rivers. I skied and built houses in my spare time in North Lake Tahoe. I worked in Gold Hill, Colorado as a camp counselor/horse wrangler. Lastly, I’ve spent the past two winters as a ski patroller at Killington Ski Resort. So that is some of what I’ve done but you’ll have to come up to Camp Dodge and work with us to find out what I’m like (and then tell me so I’ll know what to write for future bios). I will let everyone know beforehand that I’m officially addicted to both skiing and trout fishing so don’t get me started on those topics unless you want to be tied up for a while.
I can’t wait for all the new rewards and challenges in the field with the AMC volunteer trails program. I’m looking forward to meeting all my new co-workers, the volunteer crews, and seeing this beautiful mountain range from a whole new perspective. Hopefully my personality, background, and skills will complement the rest of the staff that has already started working at Camp Dodge.
Assistant Trail Crew Leaders
Everett "Ack" Moore 
"Hey I'm Everett, but some people call me Ack. I was born in Sherman, Connecticut, but my heart has always been in the White Mountains. I volunteered with AMC the past two years and am looking forward to a chance to lead. Next year I'm off to Green Mountain College to major in Adventure Recreation, which should be a blast. My favorite thing to do is think, but i don't mind backpacking, climbing, and biking either. I'm pumped to be in the mountains this summer!"
Caitlin Johnson 
Sally "Mercedes" Hartzell
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