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Show 52 and pungent moss rather than exhaust fumes convinced Karen that she'd be happy with an outdoor career. She transferred to Colorado State with a major in Wildlife Biology, but something went wrong. Classwork was different from the kind of work she'd done on the mountain - too many of the courses were preliminaries vihich had l i t t l e to do with natural resources. At that time her s i s t e r Nancy was studying acting in California; Nancy always had exciting stories to t e l l about the parts she played in summer theater. After only one quarter in Wildlife Biology, Karen changed her major again - to Drama. Back in Utah again for the summer, Karen looked for a job to help with her college expenses. She found one as a sandwich maker in a l i t t le restaurant, but only hours before she was to report for the f i r s t time, she got a phone call from a man who'd been director of the YCC camp the summer before. There vias an open&ag for a crew leader at the camp, he said, and it vias hers if she vianted i t. "That was a turning point for me," Karen says. "I was so elated over the chance to get back into the mountains! Suddenly I realized that it didn't make sense for me to be studying theater, vihere the only place I could get ahead was in a big city. That night I decided I had made a big mistake getting out of the natural resource field." At the end of that summer, the camp director told Karen she was the best crevi leader they'd had - she related so well to the crew members, That was not so surprising, because Karen was hardly older than the ten kids on her crew. "There were a l o t of times when I didn't feel comfortable," she says. "We'd get to a job and I 'd get out of the |