But to anyone other than a member of the fraternity, this week is the same as any other. Welcome to Hell Week, bitch. If you think they deserve it, pull down their underpants and paddle their bare bottom. Whatever the scenario, survival situations create a great deal of anxiety in victims. But don’t do it for the brothers. Taking those seven steps - a sequential checklist of what do in a survival situation - and modifying them for use in the paddling community, I developed the seven steps into the "survival sense" list for fellow paddlers that has been shared at various regional sea kayak symposia for the past ten years.Like a pilot's checklist, the seven steps on the survival sense list are meant to be followed in the sequence presented. Paddles can actually be a great work of art and many people make them as gifts for their big brother or sister. But it’s not going to be a trot across home plate with your finger to the sky — it’s going to be an army crawl through cow pies with Brother Talbert’s duck butter-laced finger to your nose, and you better tell him it smells nice when he asks. Lineups dialed-up in intensity. Most importantly, you’re staying at the fraternity house in between classes and each night solely because you wish to spend time with the brothers, playing Yahtzee and telling spooky stories and planning out all the fun charities you’ll get to host once initiated. You haven’t slept more than forty-five minutes in the past hundred hours. Oh, and a scavenger hunt, which is actually a blast (more on that another time). It is very difficult to see signals from the air. One day, it's bound to happen: your attempted beach landing in the surf fails and your boat is swept away while the waves dump you onto a beach; or that incoming tide was a bit higher -and faster -than you thought and now you are stranded on a remote beach without any gear. But really, you’re fucked. You actually could’ve used pledging to your advantage to peacock hard. It's a tribute to all the edible sea critters to be eaten. Could you survive the elements? He's got years of big, blue water…Creekboating is as much a game of strategy as it is a sport. If wearing goofy outfits was the worst part of your hell week, you didn’t have a hell week.I’ll be sure to post all my chapter specific hazing rituals online next time to impress you.I remember a long 2am hike, hauling plenty of beer, being quizzed, and yelling the answers in unison from a mountain top. How competent are you to survive a night in the maritime environment without a tent, sleeping bag or even food and water? Hell Week is the culmination of a semester’s worth of education. Suddenly hell week hits me like a freight train. I collected over 250 ml (a cup) of morning dew in less than five minutes using just a bandana in a small patch of grass.Most water will need to be purified before drinking.
I make excuses the first day we can’t hangout, but as the week went on and I continually showed up to class in more and more ridiculous outfits with a 50 lb bag of deer feed on me at all times she began to lose interest.By the end of the week I smelled like balls, had a pervert stache growing thanks to not being able to shave + awful gentics and slept through class.100% incorporating this in my methods for Hell Week.You didn’t get laid because you couldn’t.
Be prepared by anticipating situations and have the proper equipment (think multiple purpose for each item). Hell, it sounds insane, but you’ll look back on this week and smile.
You’ve come this far, haven’t you? Think of that the next time you are deciding upon which color of raincoat or stuff sack you want to buy.Water sources can be free-standing or flowing as found in lakes and streams or by collecting rainwater, either as it falls or by retrieving it from natural depressions. Don’t do it for yourself, either. Your muscles are sore.
They are meant to minimize the already anxious environment of a survivor situation and provide a routine to follow to offer everyone the best chances at being a survivor.Anything that protects you from the elements and helps your body regulate those warming/cooling mechanisms is a shelter. I can’t tell you exactly what will go down this week behind the closed doors of a designated chapter house (brothers, I recommend choosing a spot somewhere off campus -– rituals in the mansion are how my fraternity got boned), but I can give you an idea of what to expect. Any bright piece of fabric works as a signaling device. One of the big traditions that go along with Greek Life are Fraternity and Sorority Paddles. You’re soooooo fucking fucked. Drinking nasty shit. Learn skills and practice them ahead of time. For paddlers, prone to explore beyond the nearby headland or back along out-of-the-way beachheads, the reality of being put into a survival situation should be a real concern.Most prudent paddlers are prepared do take recovery actions after an unexpected capsize, but as a paddler - seasoned or novice - how prepared are you to deal with the situation if you lose your boat? Remember that there’s a reason the brothers saved the hardest stuff for the end – they know you can handle it.
I make excuses the first day we can’t hangout, but as the week went on and I continually showed up to class in more and more ridiculous outfits with a 50 lb bag of deer feed on me at all times she began to lose interest.By the end of the week I smelled like balls, had a pervert stache growing thanks to not being able to shave + awful gentics and slept through class.100% incorporating this in my methods for Hell Week.You didn’t get laid because you couldn’t.
Be prepared by anticipating situations and have the proper equipment (think multiple purpose for each item). Hell, it sounds insane, but you’ll look back on this week and smile.
You’ve come this far, haven’t you? Think of that the next time you are deciding upon which color of raincoat or stuff sack you want to buy.Water sources can be free-standing or flowing as found in lakes and streams or by collecting rainwater, either as it falls or by retrieving it from natural depressions. Don’t do it for yourself, either. Your muscles are sore.
They are meant to minimize the already anxious environment of a survivor situation and provide a routine to follow to offer everyone the best chances at being a survivor.Anything that protects you from the elements and helps your body regulate those warming/cooling mechanisms is a shelter. I can’t tell you exactly what will go down this week behind the closed doors of a designated chapter house (brothers, I recommend choosing a spot somewhere off campus -– rituals in the mansion are how my fraternity got boned), but I can give you an idea of what to expect. Any bright piece of fabric works as a signaling device. One of the big traditions that go along with Greek Life are Fraternity and Sorority Paddles. You’re soooooo fucking fucked. Drinking nasty shit. Learn skills and practice them ahead of time. For paddlers, prone to explore beyond the nearby headland or back along out-of-the-way beachheads, the reality of being put into a survival situation should be a real concern.Most prudent paddlers are prepared do take recovery actions after an unexpected capsize, but as a paddler - seasoned or novice - how prepared are you to deal with the situation if you lose your boat? Remember that there’s a reason the brothers saved the hardest stuff for the end – they know you can handle it.