Day 6: Prep and Archery [Trey]

On the second week of Monday, we worked on prepping our supplies and refreshing our knowledge of the skills we have learned over the past week. In the morning we started off by going over our goals and what we wanted to achieve for this trip. The general consensus for our goals was to create a livable shelter, weave a basket, and for some, build a bow and arrow. We next dedicated some time to look over the necessary information to achieve our goals, for example refreshing our memory for tying the square knot.

After we refreshed our memory we moved on to making sure all our supplies were all intact and fit for the trip. First we practiced setting up our tents, to not only improve our tent making skills but make sure they where not broken. The reason why we need to bring tents is as a safety measure in case our shelters don't go to plan. Lukily and unfortantly we found out that 2 of our tents their cordage was starting break down, so they where not usable. After we checked the tents we looked over our kits, first-aid, burners, and washing our pillows. Once we finished looking over all our gear we moved on to acquiring food through the most primitive method of all, going to H-E-B. At our primitive H-E-B run we picked up our food we picked out last week from. We foraged for peanut butter, jelly, oatmeal, chocolate, marshmallows, and tortillas.

In the afternoon after we arrived back to school from H-E-B we did more prep work and research, but the best part was archery. Archery has been something we have been covering throughout the whole course because of how it has played such a crucial role in human history. To give us some experience with one Dr. Lammel brought his compound bow from home so we could get some practice. Everyone did a great job hitting the target except for one student (I will not through out names) that shot an arrow under the fence. This really helped us understand just how hard it is and the enormous amount of skill needed by our ancestors. Overall this day was an incredibly informative and fun with all of us getting really excited for the trip to come!








 

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