I have been tentatively offered a 2 week stint working for a documentry film production crew. The documentry will commence filming April 16th and run through the end of the same month. The goal of the documentry is to film the beginnings of spring and nature in a remote area north of where I live. This particular filming will at some point be used as material in support of a cable TV documentry drawing from different film crews in Canada and the PNW region of the USA.

I was asked to join through one of the crew's friend of a friend type of deal as I know the area extremely well and have I have spent years exploring it. The crew needs a guide to help them through the area known for it's ruggedness and difficult terrain. It should be mentioned that this crew is well versed in outdoors filming and 2 of the 3 people have quite a bit of hiking experience behind them.

After being dropped off by bush plane and once a camp is established, my role as stated above is to guide the crew daily to and from different areas for their filming. Other then this, I would not have any other responsibilities other then keeping my own tent clean and organized as there will be one other camp person there at all times to cook meals etc.

At this time, I cannot go into a lot of details as there is a lot that still need to be worked out, however I can give you somewhat of hint and you may "discover" me on a TV documentry later this fall.

With all this being said....there is one major problem that may preclude me from participating. I re-injured my back a couple of weeks ago and it is currently slow to respond to treatment and rest. If I don't see any improvement in the next week to ten days, the crew has someone else lined up to take my place which of course I don't want to happen.

In any case and assuming my back responds and I am able to particpate, my question is: Has anyone else been involved in a wilderness film documentry production in a similar capacity? If so, any information...good or bad would be appreciated and will help in any decision making I have to do.