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Steven Evans
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Re: Therapeutic Ultralight: Using Lightweight Backpacking to Help Troubled Boys on 06/03/2009 08:58:48 MDT Print View

Love it! This is really a great read. I can sense your emotions in the writing, you are a proud Chief...and so you should be! Good work.

A close friend of mine leads a highschool class in leadership. It targets troubled teens and puts them in all kinds of situations where they need to work together to accomplish tasks. They are a few years older, so he takes them backpacking, winter camping, route finding and such. It has been a great success at his highschool.

He told me a major obstacle for many of the boys and girls is going "#2" in the woods. Some of them (first timers) can't believe it when they ask him where the washroom is and he points to the woods :)

Edited by Steve_Evans on 06/03/2009 08:59:31 MDT.