We have the active participation of Les Stroud from Canada. Chris Janowski of WSI in Alaska and Mors Kochanski ,also from Canada have shared correspondence. We haven't heard from Bandit Leader in some time. He has a marvelous school for the south asian forests. Peter of Reevis Mountain School has looked us over at my invite. If you spend anytime surfing the survival community, you will notice a lot of cross referenced material. That is my polite term for plagiarism <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> The term "expert' is a sometime uncomfortable appelation. You get called that, and people expect some infallible ubermennen that can use a icelens to start fire by moonlight or weave Zeltbahns out of cattails.