No offense to the author, but what kind of survival experience is a 6 hour stint? Even the full 48 hours only requires you find your way. Perhaps if I was deep in enemy territory, getting enough food would be more important than traveling quickly, but in this exercise I would have simply started hoofing it and gone hungry.
The points he makes are valid, but the anecdote seems lacking in survival challenge. (though, again, maybe I missed something)
The survival exercise in itself was much easier than I expected, although I was preparing for something really nasty. The point is that, for most of the time, what we're perceiving as being frightening is much more easier to bare in the end. I intently leave this contrast in the post and I'm happy you spotted it. It wasn't a real survival situation.
No offense to the author, but what kind of survival experience is a 6 hour stint? Even the full 48 hours only requires you find your way. Perhaps if I was deep in enemy territory, getting enough food would be more important than traveling quickly, but in this exercise I would have simply started hoofing it and gone hungry.
The points he makes are valid, but the anecdote seems lacking in survival challenge. (though, again, maybe I missed something)