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diff --git a/src/md/13_Survival_Journal_Introduction.md b/src/md/13_Survival_Journal_Introduction.md deleted file mode 100644 index df3f16f..0000000 --- a/src/md/13_Survival_Journal_Introduction.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,108 +0,0 @@ ---- -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. |