Welcome to Les!

I've greatly enjoyed reading the journals and watching the videos of both your boreal exercises. It matters that you made - and showed - mistakes both deliberate and genuine, because that is the ground truth of how these things go almost all the time.

From my perspective, your videos are exceptionally valuable. The journals compliment the videos. Is there a legitmate way to obtain these videos from Canada Discovery so that we may show them to our Scouts on a laptop and then discuss? We do not have any connections available where we meet.

I have no criticisms whatsoever of your actions - the events you show seem as authentic as I'm sure they actually were. I have found that trying to document survival exercises for future training material to be exceptionally vexing and applaud your productions.

I taught and practiced survival a bit North of you for a few years (Alaska, north of the range) and had a few interesting memories return rather vividly, LoL - so far all fond no matter the feeling du jour at the time because so far I've survived everything <grin>. I could smell your fires...

I will figure some way to use your two Canada Discovery experiences with our Scouts, regardless, and look forward to your participation on the forum.

Regards,

Tom