Trail Survival Guide
Embark on a treacherous journey with deductions and rewards. Navigate through challenges, sickness, and opportunities in this interactive trail experience. Can your company endure the rugged trail and make it to the end? Follow the rules and make strategic decisions to ensure survival.
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TREK TREK WEST WEST
MONTHS MONTHS 1 & 2 progress. Deduct 150 pounds for food for the first two months instead of the expected 100 pounds. 1 & 2 Some in your company get sick and slow the company s
MONTHS 3 & 4 Deduct 100 pounds for food eaten during these two months. If you did not bring a tent, deduct 100 pounds for food that is ruined because of the unusually wet weather.
MONTHS 5 & 6 MONTHS 5 & 6 Deduct 100 pounds for food eaten during these two months. Add 100 pounds if your company brought fishing line and hooks or if you can trade some from another company. Someone gets sick in your company and needs extra care. Deduct another 100 pounds of food if your company did not bring medicine or dried fruit.
MONTHS 7 & 8 MONTHS 7 & 8 Deduct 100 pounds for food eaten during these two months. Deduct an additional 100 pounds for company members who need food for their journey with the Mormon Battalion. Someone wants to trade food for shoes. Add 100 pounds of food if you brought extra shoes and want to sell them.
MONTHS 9, 10 & 11 MONTHS 9, 10 & 11 Deduct 150 pounds of food for these three months. Deduct an additional 100 pounds of food if you did not bring bedding and blankets. Someone in your company gets sick because of the cold weather and needs extra food deduct 50 more pounds. Deduct another 50 pounds of food for the birth of a child in your company.
MONTHS 12, 13 & 14 MONTHS 12, 13 & 14 Deduct 150 pounds of food for these three months. You come across some wagon teams that are stuck in the mud and the owners offer you food to help them. Add 50 pounds of food if you brought rope.
MONTHS 15, 16 & 17 MONTHS 15, 16 & 17 Deduct 150 pounds of food for these three months. Your wagon wheel breaks. If you brought a wheel repair kit or can find another company willing to carry your supplies in your wagons, you can continue. Remember a wagon can only hold 1,800 pounds. Your company comes to a long stretch of prairie that has no water. If you brought water containers, you can continue. Otherwise you die on the trail.
MONTH 18 MONTH 18 A terrible windstorm ruins half of your remaining food. The next morning the captain of your company yells: There it is, the Valley of the Great Salt Lake! You have reached the promised valley! If you have any food left and you brought farm tools, you will survive. If you did not bring farm tools, you must find someone who is willing to lend them to you.
Journals In your notebook, write a few paragraphs describing whether you think it would have been harder to live during the pioneer days, or in our day.
Id like to make this . I d like to make this . . . . promise to you. If you are faithful, the day will you. If you are faithful, the day will come when those deserving pioneers come when those deserving pioneers whom you rightly praise for having whom you rightly praise for having overcome the adversities in their overcome the adversities in their wilderness trek will instead praise you wilderness trek will instead praise you for having made your way successfully for having made your way successfully through a desert of despair, for having through a desert of despair, for having passed through a cultural wilderness passed through a cultural wilderness and having kept the faith and having kept the faith . promise to -Elder Neal A. Maxwell, Faith in Every Footstep Instructor s Guide [Church Educational System manual, 1996], 14.
Every generation that has ever walked the earth has faced challenges. We could spend the entire evening talking about them. But of all the challenges that have been faced in the past, the ones we have today, I believe, are most easily handled. I say that because they are manageable. They largely involve individual behavioral individual behavioral decisions decisions, but those decisions can be made and followed. And when that happens, the challenge is behind us. Pres Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign, Jan 2001, 2.
Journals Write in your notebook some individual behavioral decisions that you may face in our day. Write down next to them, what you will do when faced with that decision.
