Update:

Stealth fitness plan:

• Walking and carrying golf bag [about 25 pounds], 9 holes [about 2 miles] 3 times a week [weekday dawn patrol], to increase to 18 holes [about 4 miles].

• Weekend naturalist half-day courses at hilly regional park, mostly foraging / primitive skills, roughly once every three weeks.

• Gearing up to do some cycling for aerobics.

• Going to keep handing him heavy stuff to carry.

• Going to invite him to orienteer events.

Wilderness land navigation/ survival skill course is summertime [hot days, cool nights], state park, developed campgrounds and trails, about 1 ½ days.

Gear: Bringing him along to my monthly thrift store run.

Clothes, boots: he’s got what he needs for now and will be wearing them playing golf. [I could use a couple things!].

Dirt time [camping out]: Problematic. All I can do is encourage and invite.

I expect he will wind up replacing almost all of his initial gear over a few years if he sticks with it.

I will pass along a printout of all your great comments and suggestions.

Thanks.