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#246187 - 05/23/12 01:58 AM Re: Mock Bug-out [Re: Aussie]
bacpacjac Offline
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Loc: Ontario, Canada
Originally Posted By: Aussie
Fantastic trip - except for the end bit.

Sounds like DS may have been suffering dehydration, ratherthan flu ?

In hot weather you need to carefully check how much people, esp kids drink. They get excited and forget to drink enough. We had a bad experiance with DD not drinking enough. If you think back, was he drinking and weeing enough ?



I was thinking that too, Aussie but he drank at least 2L of Tang, was peeing every 45 mins or so and we took a break every 20 mins or so to drink in the shade. He seemed fine until, pow, it hit. He had stomach cramping and, shall we say, severe digestive upset.

He did have to be reminded several times to out his hat back on though...
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#246197 - 05/23/12 03:17 AM Re: Mock Bug-out [Re: bacpacjac]
Snake_Doctor
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Awesome pics jac! It's good to see a mom that takes her kids out camping. I agree about tent size. I scofff at sleeps five. No it sleeps one. Me. At 6'4 i need room to sprawl out.

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#246218 - 05/23/12 04:09 PM Re: Mock Bug-out [Re: bacpacjac]
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Thanks Snake. My Mother-in-Law called me "brave". I told her that I got over being a scared woman in the woods a very long time ago. I was a little nervous going solo the first time but after I faught my way back into my car to get my keys out, I was so tired that I slept like a baby. The mom in me took it one step at a time, based more on Jr's competence level, and an encounter with a black bear a few years ago on a family trip gave me a much thicker skin.

My three rules are: be smart. be safe. have fun.
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#246230 - 05/23/12 07:02 PM Re: Mock Bug-out [Re: bacpacjac]
Snake_Doctor
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Very admirable Jac. I did my first solo very young and while I almost needed new underwear by 10 PM it taught me a lot. You're his mom, you know best. More boys should have moms like you. Keep up the good work. He'll be an accomplished woodsman in no time.like you.

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