Personal Narrative: The Murder Of Northern Tier

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I could die. I mean I really could, and who would find our bodies? And if they did find my dead rotting carcass I wonder what the autopsy would say? Mauled by an overly aggressive bear? Attacked by a massive furry canadian moose? Ok, maybe I was being a bit forward but after hearing news about another boy scout who had died at Philmont Scout Ranch due to a flash flood. These ideas and many more (even more gruesome) populated my subconscious and conscious state of mind. Northern Tier is no easy feat. It’s not as if someone can just say “Oh yeah let's do that next weekend!” Oh au contraire! It took months of planning to go on our Northern Tier trek in the Great White North (Canada). Northern Tier is a Boy Scout high adventure camp in Canada that …show more content…

They take you on an underground mine tour and you learn a “ton”, see what I did there? So we exited the park a few hours later and within an hour or two we arrived at the Charles L Sommers Northern Tier base. There we learned more about the trip and what was laid ahead of us. We also learned why a mass genocide of all mosquitoes must be executed. THEY WERE EVERYWHERE! The next morning we set off and I saw just how difficult this trip would be. We had to flip a canoe onto our shoulders, and being as scrawny as I was sure didn’t help. We also had to learn about all the gear we were bringing along with us. We set off after a few hours of training with all our gear in our canoes and got on the water to begin the hard part of the adventure. I sat Duff that first half of the day. And for those of you who are unfamiliar with the term it means to sit in the middle of the canoe dying of boredom as two other people in the stern (back) and bow (front) paddled. Okay maybe I’m not cutting it enough slack. As Duff you are also supposed to help navigate as you are the only person on the boat who has their hands free. So as I sat there feeling useless, Griffin and our Guide Matt were paddling away. We

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