Survival Outing Day One

When I got up I got some breakfast and went to Ken’s Truck town to meet up with Thuot for the survival outing. That was at about eleven in the morning. By noon we were underway. We made our stops along the way where Thuot would talk about hiking areas. Then we went to Bandera Airfield for the start of the survival outing.

I helped to set up the instructors area when the students were out looking for a place to set up their shelter. There was some down time for use while the students where making their shelter. I helped to get the fire going for the instructors area. We hung out and talked about old times.

Around five we put the students on a solo. That is an hour where they just sit by themselves. They don’t get to do anything but sit there. When they were done we brought them back to the instructors area for a few final words about the night to come. They had more time to work on their shelters. It was about eight o’clock that they had to be in their shelter until midnight.

We sat around the fire relaxing and doing rounds every two hours to check on everyone. My shift time was going to be early in the evening and I was going to get the four to six hours off. I also had some time until midnight to sleep.

I went to my truck and slept for one hour.