WEDNESDAY, avausr 23.1972 “I ‘guess the biggest thing I learned ‘is its no good to run away from” problems, you have to face them.. ‘You have to at least give it a try.” _=Brian Hobbs, . Terrace, B.C, » Brian . Hobbs,’ ry : seventeen. ; - year-old Terrace resident, ‘read © all about: Outward: “Bound. © ; . several years back ina national. periodical, Fired with en- thuslasm Brian applied for the twenty-six day summer course ° and was turned down. He was not old enough, Then this spring, Brian received a letter from the directors of the school asking if he was still intered. He was, He: paid his $350 and was enrolled _- in a twenty-six day summer. course that teok him up mountains, down rivers, across country and, at times, even into himself, The next twenty-six days were exhausting but delightful, The first organized event was: described as a ‘quiet’ nature walk, that ended with a walk through a swamp, waist-deep, There were sixty boys in camp, broken: down into ‘six, len-man patrols which were broken. down even further for . some activities, There was one instructor for each patrol, who was More of a guide than a teacher, leaving the large part ‘af the responsibility on the boys themselves.’ “It was really something,” said Brian, There were no standards to achieve and you didn’t really have to do anything. The whole thag was ‘based on self-disptine,’” Only one of the sixty, an army cadet, didn’t make it through the course. He left the second day after spraining an ankle. Every-one else came out with scratches, bruises, and cuts, but the twisted ankle was the only. injury of twenty six pretty rugged days, . The mornings started for Brian at, 6:30 with a quarter mile jog’and a dip in the Similkameen River. Then breakfast and the first class, .. There were no classrooms. ° It they were teaching you canoeing they did It in a canoe * not from a desk. If they ” were teaching yeu rock-climbing you learned, climbing rocks. 1¢ was a total educational things, with the theoritical and the practical - work all done at once," There were three expeditions for the students, The first was three days hiking into a small mountain, climbing the mountain and then heading back. The hikers picked up a lot of the basics on this trip; map- reading, compass use, camping - knowledge. The. mountain climbing itself was, according | to Brian, “about the same aa climbing Mount. . Thornhill, we | just sort of walked up.” The second expedition was also three days, this time to Snowy Smountain about 8000' tall, The expedition was made without the presence of in- structors and involved some basic rock-climbing as well as ‘the skills in camping and map reading they had picked up. Between these expeditions and the second and last. the time ‘was spent learning the ropes of rock-climbing, They learned most of. the things you see crazy mountain climbers doing in the movies; climbing rock fence that. were, in some cases, practically smooth, bouncing down mountains; hanging onto a rope (repelling) - and learning responsibility and realiance when it came ‘to . mountain. rescue. techniques, One member of the: team'was . strapped tightly intoa stretcher’ and lowered down‘ a 150° cliff,” ' “When you were strapped in ’ thestretcher it was like beingin - a straight jacket, you couldn't: ° move. Then they lowered you straight down and: you had to turn tO. TURN TO US wire CONFIDENCE. - MacKays - Funeral ot a Phone: 435. 54d * Terrace, 8.Gi. ° trust them: because’ they were “all_you had at that moment. “Then, when’ you ‘were lowering someone down the cliif you had complete respon- sibility, One hundred and fifty feet is a long way-to fall.” As’ well as the mountain ' climbing, canoeing,-was taught. The students started out on the Twin Lakes leraning the basics and~ then moved to the Simalkameen River for the more advanced runs. There first run on the River ‘was five miles where the boys learned to handle the canoes ‘and how. to-ferry them,, The final test of canceing was a twenty-five mile run on the river, through calm waters and through rapids, One section, the Goldon Don, was the worst for rapids but the entire patrol made it thraugh. .-“'The only canoe that capsized was run by two of the less ex- perienced canoeists. in the patrol, The made it through the rapids-and then capsizedwhile coming Into shore, They hit the eddy at the river's side. wrong and went under,’’. The final expedition was nine -days long and had-the patrols wandering down into the states an then climbing the . highest peak in B.C.'s Coast .Range. Mount McKeene. - ‘The expedition started with a hike into Orthodox Lake in the Central Range. The lake is situated below Mount McKeene about 8700" high, From Orthodox the solos started, The solos had each boy spending four’ nights an three days alone in te wilderness of the area with just basic rations, Some didn’t even take the rations prefering to fast for three days. One even went without water for twa of the three days, -.“It was a meditative type of _ thing, similar to the Indian * thing when they went off and fasted. It Was a tine when j you : gould go where you ‘wanted, you :. “‘sort“of sat dows and ‘thought about what you had learned and down into two groups of five and _ were off with no instructors, - Once more. The first leg of the journey was down into Washington and Mount Remo where they missed their in- structors and therefore their charice to climb. Then back into Canada and Mount McKeene was next. The : boys climbed to where: the in- structors were, without ropes and. with full packs on. The packs made climbing somewhat perilous, weighing as they did ‘between 40 and 45 pounds. From the spot where the instructors - were staying, the McKeena ‘Hilton’,:a tarp arranged to cover a rock overhang, the boys . and instructors climbed the last thousand feet. From a distance Mount McKeene appears to come toa point but once your up , there, there is plenty of room, about len square feet, _ All that was left was the hike back and then one final day in camp, What does someone get oul of twenty-six days of oul- door living and training? “Besides the basic skills; 1 . realized this fantastle potential ‘inside me. Before the courge I. would take a look at a problem and say ‘ft can't do thal’ now its more ‘Well, I'll give it a try’, --"'The whole scene was set up spontaneity and a good learning" situation. The self was em- phasised, you never did anything you dida’t want to, The only one pushing you to do all these things was yourself.” --“ had to fight a lot of fears, and the only way you can fight them is by facing them, When we were doing rock climbing | had to crawl through small enclosed spaces which used to bother me, now there is nothing ; to It, “What we went through over those twenty-six days was a’ complete physical, paychological and educational course, I guess it all comes: down to facing problems’: stead. of. Fanning a} ay... have" a give ita try ani ‘got into your self, examining the changes and what you had gat out of the‘course,’’ The rest was almost anti: climaxical, if climbing two mountains and . wandering “through a good many miles of wilderness can be called anti- climaxial, The patrols broke _ At THE LOGAL CHURCHES A Reminder from ‘the Cuenca " Forestry: Asuociation of B,.C.:). Forest Fires are often caused’ by children. 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MATTHEW'S CHURCH | an Lazelle Averwe, Terrace: _ Anglican Church of Canade,” | Sunday Services: July and Auguat Pastor; Jon Stokes. | “ . = Merning Werthie - vening. Service. summer reading, it might .be timely to quote from: George W. Russell, who wrote under the pen name of AE. “To those who cr romance, I would say, You yourself are romance. You‘ are the lost prince, herding ob- scurely among the swine. The romance of your spirit is the most marvellous stories, Your wanderings have been greater than those of Ulysses... Looking back upon that other life through the vistas of memory, I see breaking in upon the images of this. world, forms of I know not what antiquity, I walk out of strange cities steeped in the jewel glow and gloom of evening, or sail in galleys over the silvery waves of the antique ocean, I reside in worshipper. of the Earth-gods upon the mountains, lie en- tranced in Egyptian erypis, or brush with naked body through the long, sunlit grasses of the prairies. Endlessly the ‘procession of varying, forms goes back into yesterdays of the world...Were ‘incarnated many times?" “From. the. “deeper of the. out against tents, or in palace chambers, go abroad in riots, meditate in. eyclopean - buildings, am not these memories of the spirit ' There are some who do not seem to haye experienced deja - vu, but once in a Grade 6 class, remote | ‘after having read “The. Search ’ for the Girl with the Blue Eyes", [ questioned the class about this, To my surprise more than half of that large group had had experiences with deja vu. Al one time itcame to mind that such experiences could have’ formed part of a dream, par- ticularly since dreams are said to occur every night that we Sleep. Now that I am more than halfway through an east-west anthology compiled and edited s.]. Cranston, entitled “Rein-: carnation”, there seems to be “another plausible thought. Could we not have been together with that select group in another time and | place and in different guise? ., ~ Some seem to have the ability to remember past lives - if you read‘books by Joan Grant, you will find that some remember in “minute detail. Then arises the question why don’t we all then remember, another quote from Lafcadio Hearn's “Within the Circle”, also in the anthology ‘Seems appropriate here... ‘stg others in the like state it has been permitted to see something of . their pre- existence, But no one of them Elvira. Biyant : ” Writes of life ‘in the Queen. Charlottes, and. adventures at sea ever could endure to look - far, Power to see all former births - belongs to those -eternally release from the bonds of self. . Such exist outside of illusion, - outside of form and name; and . ‘pain cannot Come. night: them. . But to you, remaining ia illusion, not even the Buddha could give power to look back more than a little way....” . This past week I decided to have a change of reading so thoroughly enjoyed R,D. Symons “'The Broken Snare!’, It was the first book I've en- countered where the people in the story were termed ''Man”, “Woman”, “Boy”, “Rid” and 80 On, Only the different horses were named. It is a well told story of one family’s attempt to return to the simple life, a daily struggle in a pioneer existence, which was only upset when the outside “civilization” invaded the homestead. The book is well worth reading. Not long ago, I received a request to write the story of the “B.C, Canuck” but with. the boat tied up at 6th. wharf this week, and the ‘‘captain’ in hospital at Queen Charlotte _ Islands Hospital, [am not ready to do this, Perhaps there will be some more cheerful news than this to relate by next letter, + “, ‘Queen Chasiotte Ci miles from - Masset, ‘so ny visiting is. being’ done by ma But there are times when a person is in hospital ‘and -just receiving letters. is sufficient. The mogt important part is in knowing: that someone is con- cerned. One everiing last week I went with the family’ along. North Beach ‘in the dune buggy. I found one small yellow-orange agate, which I hope to even- tually have in a ring. This searching for agates is fascinating and many of the people at Masset indulge in the - _ pastime. I had never had a dune - buggy ride before - you could say it beats walking all those many miles in the sand! _. Aletter was forwarded to me . from a’ Mrs, Thelma MacAdam, She and her partner, Mrs. Merriam Doucet, had read.the’ letter I sent to the Vancoouver _ Sun several. weeks back con- cerning the spraying of the 1,600 acres of land in our province. These two people have been wérking to have have something done about the use of s0 many chemicals, They are. being backed by the B.C, En- vironmental Council, It seems that in the Fraser Valley some 12 super toxic chemicals are being used on our food crops, -one's list of food might result in *Some of these have low 2 City is saveny ae ae ets toxicity. ratings but: are’ of the ‘ thalidomide family which could be extremely dangerous for 2 preganiant woman in her first months ‘of pregnancy. { hayes asked a doctor if he would toask.the mother of a deformed _ baby if she could have eate ’ vegetables or fruit sprayed wilh Coptay d the first 4 months and he replied the questic would never occur ta hin,” (It would seem the only way; to avoid this hazard would be ‘to grow one’s own supply vegetables and fruit.) Officials have ‘been ‘told - that “wore should be informed | dangers that they. and ‘thet -families are being exposed.to by the continuing use of synthe chemicals in our every. day lives” It seems nothing is done: to improve conditions until enctgl people complain. F aim ‘almost reluctant to start readings “Beware of the Food You Eat” 3 _ by Ruth Winter, which I hap pened to see in.a Masset sto 7 shorily after having received Thelma MacAdams letter’, This book is a documented re; “disclosing the alarming facts about the poisonous chemicals, additives and pollutants in the food we eat.” It is quite possible that after reading this boolr, “slim pickings,” - | CHRIST LUTHERAN E. Your Eyes. A Pacific © Your Hands. A game - 2) of softball, - ‘Buttoning your shirt. ~ “Tying your laces. ° ‘Brushing your teeth. * That's what you've got to lose. What have a “Sunset, A good book. u got to lose? _ Your Hearing. A bird at. your window. The: laughter © of children. A good joke. Your baby’s first word, A game of golf. That's what you've got -Achild's smile. to lose. That's what you've got ~ to lose. * Pornidy aris eres ery : oy Your Legs. A brisk - walk. on. the beach. A game of tennis. Going downstairs. .- A bieyele ride. That’s.what you've .. got to lose, “Going upstairs. Of your life es what you' ve ive ‘equipment. Haves a safe ‘attitude: : Have a safe life. BOARD&ETE CYRIL WHITE, nadie Your Back. An afternoon Of gardening. Getting into your car. A day skiing. A comfortable : night's sleep. : That's what .. you've oot to lose, fety Ss ragtighaes he bs 3 rs ia