Agapooka
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Using the principle of modularity present in the German language, I've created a word that describes my experience in the bush this weekend. It's that time of year when the snow is melting, the sun is shining and the birds are returning from their summer residences. You'd think it was the perfect time to seek nature.
I'm involved in an outdoors survival class and I've already camped out in a comfy quinsy in -20 celsius temperature. It was fun, actually. This trip was a bit different: there were still 4 feet of snow in the bush. Wet snow. The temperature fluctuated within a few degrees of 0C. For the 48 hours that I was in the forest, the sun stopped shining and there was incessant rain of the slow, all-penetrating variety.
Our shelters were 15 year old tarps, and whilst most us did fine, there were a few that had created more of an aquarium than anything else. We didn't run out of water.
Food was a different issue. I'm aware of the fact that it's not required for such a short trip; nevertheless, our instructor kindly allowed us to bring flour. Bannock time! It comes in a wonderful assortment of colourful variety: Ashy, Doughy, Both-y... and if you're patient enough, you can have something of a fairly consisent texture. I even made myself Earl Grey Bannock, using the remains of my Earl Grey Tea, a few pieces of bark that were floating around, whether I liked it or not, and my flour to create the ultimate bannock! Mmm. Needless to say, when everyone was given a carrot at the end of the day, they were the best carrots we'd ever eaten.
Please don't interpret this as a complaint. I quite enjoyed my experience, even though my boots were soaked (I tailored a fashionable pair of socks from a garbage back). I wish to someday live in nature and this experience has allowed me to gain a more realistic understanding of the tremendous skillz required to be able to have a comfortable life therein. I think I might continue the long journey of acquiring and refining the ability to cope with an environment, with which most of us have lost a connection. I can dissociate myself from emotions, but I refuse to dissociate myself from an environment without which I am incomplete.
Jason
I'm involved in an outdoors survival class and I've already camped out in a comfy quinsy in -20 celsius temperature. It was fun, actually. This trip was a bit different: there were still 4 feet of snow in the bush. Wet snow. The temperature fluctuated within a few degrees of 0C. For the 48 hours that I was in the forest, the sun stopped shining and there was incessant rain of the slow, all-penetrating variety.
Our shelters were 15 year old tarps, and whilst most us did fine, there were a few that had created more of an aquarium than anything else. We didn't run out of water.
Food was a different issue. I'm aware of the fact that it's not required for such a short trip; nevertheless, our instructor kindly allowed us to bring flour. Bannock time! It comes in a wonderful assortment of colourful variety: Ashy, Doughy, Both-y... and if you're patient enough, you can have something of a fairly consisent texture. I even made myself Earl Grey Bannock, using the remains of my Earl Grey Tea, a few pieces of bark that were floating around, whether I liked it or not, and my flour to create the ultimate bannock! Mmm. Needless to say, when everyone was given a carrot at the end of the day, they were the best carrots we'd ever eaten.
Please don't interpret this as a complaint. I quite enjoyed my experience, even though my boots were soaked (I tailored a fashionable pair of socks from a garbage back). I wish to someday live in nature and this experience has allowed me to gain a more realistic understanding of the tremendous skillz required to be able to have a comfortable life therein. I think I might continue the long journey of acquiring and refining the ability to cope with an environment, with which most of us have lost a connection. I can dissociate myself from emotions, but I refuse to dissociate myself from an environment without which I am incomplete.
Jason
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