BOOT CAMP

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“You think that’s the ‘tree shaped like a banana’?”

“Man, I don’t even know anymore.”

Second forest camp was this week. Less stressful than the previous one, mostly due to it revolving more around firing range exercises. There’s only so much stress one wants to put on a man they’re about to hand live ammunition to.

This was also our first night orienteering experience. Orienteering is all nice and dandy during the day, but walking around in the pitch dark with just a puny headlight is quite the game changer. Suddenly, if you weren’t paying close attention to where you were going, positioning yourself on the map might become very difficult.

Look left, look right. Where, during daytime, one could before see an intersection in the distance or an open field or maybe some buildings, all you’ll see is about 15-20m away and beyond that just a big black void.

Also, if you mark your checkpoint by drawing two horizontal white stripes on a tree and then place that checkpoint amongst a forest of birches, then you’re just plain evil.