New short film “From Dirt” is from the heart.

“You can’t hide out there,” says Agnes Vianzon. “Who you really are, or who you think you are, or who you want people to think you are—you can’t hide it.” 

Vianzon is the founder of Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps. ESCC is more than a group of trailbuilders, but also a place for connection, inclusion, and community. A new mini-documentary From Dirt, created by Fish House Media, showcases the way ESCC brings people together through the quotidian rituals of backcountry trail life: living out of a backpack, filtering water, communal meals. It’s a film about trail crew, not trail work, and that’s the point. 

“Even if the path is to never do trails again,” says Agnes, “you still learned how to work through a conflict, how to be really vulnerable. That will take you wherever you end up, wherever you’re going.” 

Watch the short film [10:39] below.

Photos courtesy of Sam Fish / Fish House Media.