When I was in grade school, in seventh and eighth grade, we did two canoe trips where we were basically on our own. In high school we had an annual long walk, where we were basically on our own too.

I think it's good for kids to do something like this.

Keith

So True Keith

There is a great book about an annual high school canoe trip. I think it was in Canada. A student gets mauled by a grizzly. I think he dies of an infection. Read it about four years ago but can't recall the title of the book.

Just found it. The Twenty-Ninth Day: A Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra