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Charlie Bloedon, Instructor/Maine Bound Coordinator: "You guys are going to work as a group to
build a debris hut, oh yeah.
"You want this opening to be small so you have to crawl to get in it. Remember, small
is beautiful when it comes to building these huts to help keep the warmth in."
Charlie Bloedon, Instructor/Maine Bound Coordinator: "The objective of this course is for students
to learn how to be a good guide outside. How to deal with clientelle or participants in
an educational field."
Student in hut: "It's surprisingly cozy. I thought it would be cold and damp, but it's
not."
Charlie Bloedon: "The idea, of course, is to be prepared not to ever get stuck out there
in the first place. Some of what we talk about is how to prepare for the worst if something
is brought up instead of just sitting there, curling up and dying of how to make use of
your time as you wait for rescue to come and get you."
Mary Plaisted, Sustainable Agriculture Major: "This isn't for my actual major but I think
it takes over one of the general education requirements. What better way to have a little
fun with school than do something you have interest in? So it's pretty cool."
Charlie Bloedon: "Maine is a wonderful place as far as providing a lot of outdoor opportunities
and thee things that are easily accessible for students to get out and do."
Charlie Bloedon (to students): "Dump debris on this, and then we need to clear out where
people would be sleeping."
Student: "I'd love a pillow." *laughs* "There we go."
Lisa Carter, Instructor/Maine Bound Coordinator: "Just educating that we do have a university
forest on campus is huge and that you can be outside and, you know, within ten minutes
have all these amazing opportunities for running, hiking, snowshoeing, skiing, and opening their
eyes to that and making them more educated in the outdoors so they're more comfortable
outside doing those activities."
Sara Puhlick, Nursing Major: "It's a lot of fun, and it's great that my nursing elective
doesn't just have to be a nursing course, that it can be something like this."
Kali Burnham, Kineseiology/Phys. Ed. Major: "We got to tip ourselves over in the Stillwater,
it's cool because we're making fires out back--well, we're not actually going to start them."
Charlie Bloedon: "One of the hopes of this course is that it's going to set people up
to get into the field of guiding, with an outdoor education minor, which is something
that we're pushing for. We have an outdoor concentration right now, we're hoping to make
that a minor, and to get people more involved with being professional guides and to help
kinda raise that within the state."