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diff --git a/md/13_Survival_Journal_Introduction.md b/md/13_Survival_Journal_Introduction.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..df3f16f --- /dev/null +++ b/md/13_Survival_Journal_Introduction.md @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ +--- +title: Survival Journal - Introduction +--- + +This article is an introduction to the history of a month of my life +from July 24, 1973, to August 24, 1973. Officially, the experience was +titled "Youth Acculturation Course" hosted by Brigham Young University. +Unofficially, I always call it the desert survival course. The +experience had such a strong impact on my life that I want to include it +in its entirety in my life history. The following set of articles are +almost verbatim copies of the journal I kept while attending the course. +Other articles in this book are based on specific events from the course +and have been embellished by my memory after more than 40 years have +elapsed. (See [Melody's Malady](/stories/11_Melodys_Malady.html) and [Chocolate Waterfalls](/stories/12_Chocolate_Waterfalls.html)). + +The events that led to my signing up for this course are unique. My +brother Tom and I attended a fireside that was designed as a recruiting +tool to attract students to take the course during their summer break. +We were both quite captured by the grand sense of adventure the +presentation portrayed and signed up to take the course together. It +turned out that Tom dropped the course for reasons unknown to me, but I +chose to take it without his companionship. I was planning to go on my +mission at the end of the summer and hoped it would be a good +character-building experience that would serve me well in the mission +field. Before I left home to go take this course, I had received my +mission call and knew I would be going to Brazil a few months after +returning. + +Below I include two maps to pinpoint the location in Southeastern Utah +where the course was held. The first shows the general area relative to +familiar large cities in the state of Utah. + +{width="6.958333333333333in" +height="6.958333333333333in" alt=""} + +The map below shows a more detailed zoom-in of the route we took from +start to finish. + +{width="7.083333333333333in" +height="5.087740594925634in" alt=""} + +We started at Keg Knoll and ended in the town of Boulder. The total +length of the trek was a little over 250 miles. + +## Calendar View +July 24 to August 24, 1973 + +<table><tbody> + <tr> + <td></td> + <td></td> + <td style="background: yellow">24</td> + <td style="background: yellow">25</td> + <td style="background: green">26</td> + <td style="background: green">27</td> + <td style="background: green">28</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="background: ">29</td> + <td style="background: aqua">30</td> + <td style="background: aqua">31</td> + <td style="background: aqua">1</td> + <td style="background: aqua">2</td> + <td style="background: aqua">3</td> + <td style="background: aqua">4</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="background: ">5</td> + <td style="background: magenta">6</td> + <td style="background: magenta">7</td> + <td style="background: magenta">8</td> + <td style="background: magenta">9</td> + <td style="background: magenta">10</td> + <td style="background: magenta">11</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="background:">12</td> + <td style="background: darkcyan">13</td> + <td style="background: red">14</td> + <td style="background: red">15</td> + <td style="background: red">16</td> + <td style="background: red">17</td> + <td style="background: red">18</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="background: darkolivegreen">19</td> + <td style="background: darkolivegreen">20</td> + <td style="background: darkolivegreen">21</td> + <td style="background: darkgray">22</td> + <td style="background: gray">23</td> + <td style="background: darkblue">24</td> + <td style="background: ">25</td> + </tr> +</tbody></table> + +<span style="background: yellow">Instruction</span><br> +<span style="background: green">Impact</span><br> +<span style="background: aqua">Group Exp.</span><br> +<span style="background: magenta">Survival</span><br> +<span style="background: darkcyan">Forced march</span><br> +<span style="background: red">Student Exp.</span><br> +<span style="background: darkolivegreen">Solo</span><br> +<span style="background: darkgray">Rappel, testimony Mtg.</span><br> +<span style="background: gray">Run-in, bus ride home</span><br> +<span style="background: darkblue">Party</span><br> + +The next 5 articles describe each week separately. I hope they don't put +you to sleep. |