Today was the start of Land-based Survival Camp. We took a two hour bus to the same location as the Sea-based Survival Camp but this time we have the Vancouver people with us. Usually you park a bus at a parking lot but today we parked right by the highway. That was pretty dangerous and had already violated one of the rules of the Vancouver program. But this was Toronto and they had no say in this. We began the trip with a long hike to our campsite and set up our tent and shelter. Then we went hiking to another place to make our own shelter with branches and sticks. It took a long time and it was hard to find large branches to start our shelter. When they stopped us and started analyzing how we well we made our shelters. I believe our shelter was by far the worst because it was not even half-finished. Then they had us test it by fitting ourselves inside. After fitting ourselves inside, we broke out of the shelter and broke it. We had a debrief and they suggested the idea of us living in the shelters for tonight. I was terrified with this plan because our shelter was not finished and it was broken. It was too dark to fix it and we may as well sleep in the open. However they called it off after seeing our frightened little faces. It was already pitch black by then and they made us go off into the woods in pairs. We were supposed to walk to our campsite ourselves by following the trail. It was really dark and they expected us to use night vision to see the trail and find our campsite. We had no flashlights and it seemed impossible. We had gotten lost as well but alas, we made it back safe and sound.
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