European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Survival campers built Indian style shelter. By John Noble Wilford new York times Erri Ferons quit her Job As a t be insurance cleric in san Diego and plans to work in a Coal Nune in Utah this fall she is 19 and wishes that she had a luxury Van with a Sun set painted on the Side but is saving her Money for College. Ferons volunteered to kill the sheep it was a Ewe past its Lamb bearing years. While two men held the Ewe to the ground. Ferons gripped the Butcher knife and pointed it where she had been told at the jugular she Gnu aced she Cut. Deep and Quick and sure then she walked away in tears. I just wanted tse if i was Strong a Naab to a it she said later. To see if you Are  enough Emaio Nally and physically to do it. Thousands of people enrol in outdoor survival courses each year seeking adventure of this sort. And this was Why Ferons and j4 other Young men and women had ventured into the wilderness of Southern Utah.  in the baking heat of the de Sert climbing up and Down mountains dehydrated by Day and Chi a to the Bone at night. They were learning to survive in one of the 28-Day outdoor survival courses conducted each Spring and summer by Brigham Young University. What they were doing is sometimes called experiential education or risk recreation experiencing nature under primitive Coo i Lions risking life and limb Lor the experience. In so doing they hoped to learn something about themselves their reaction to fear and physical Pri vation their resourcefulness when alone for Days and nights in a strange and difficult in. Ron men. As interest in the outdoors grows around the nation thousands of people seek adventure in the out doors each year. The american association for experiential Edu cation based in Denver knows of about 500 schools and organizations with courses in outdoor action oriented learning and it estimates there must be a least 3 000. The most prominent is an organization called out Ward bound which is providing an adventure Edu cation for some 7.000 people this year. Outward bound has seven schools in the United states and w schools or. Five continents serving 17 countries. Outward bound s courses Are offered year round and last four to 28 Days they involve Rock climbing and mountaineering running rapids in Canoe or raft. Sailing and backpacking Cross country skiing an Winter camping Page 1-j the stars and stripes americans learning to live off the land the Young men who found the first pieces of a fallen soviet sate Ute in the Northern Canadian Wilder Ness were Onward bound graduates on an Arctic trek. One of the Lew courses emphasizing Wilder Ness sir vital is the one that has been offered by Brigham Young since the Iofe. Each person pays 330 and May receive College credit Lor completing the coarse. The participants do not live entirely off the land for 23 Days but they learn How to do it if they bad to. They learn to build shelters and animal traps to identify and Cook edible plants to build tires without matches and to make fishing lines and Hooks out of natural materials. Led by six instructors the july survival group started its expedition in the desert at a Canyon called robbers Roost near the site of one of Butch Ciss Dys hideouts. They were expected to cover More than 50 Miles in two and a half Days an endurance hike called  they were allowed Only the clothes they wore a knife and a canteen of water. They were lowered by ropes into the deep narrow Canyon. There was no Way out except to follow the Canyon wherever it led. Out toward the dirty Devil River. It was an abrupt introduction to survival techniques. It was a Rotten time  said Preston Grant an 18-year-old College freshman from Salt Lake City. Five had an easy life and the stress i shocked  camper finds stones also grind he to participants in this out several of the hikers became i eloped blisters and could barely walk 4 ready to give up. One Man had to i the Impact hike because of comi thyroid condition be had kept secret. It was on the first Day of such a a Frei ago that the Only death in the program 4 Young woman feeling faint sat Down i of a heart attack the cause of which i Ter mined. Scott boo Stob the o-jmld1 Tor said that most people i so by the Impact bite. They fiery to be the orca an i think a. Be off the fan hew hard that can  one Man once signed up or the recalled because be and Bis wife i Stead in the wilderness. They net i for teaching guitar. The group hiked out of the dirty Devil and then crossed the 1 they reached the base of Buu Mountain there they rested for a Day. Next i women divided into separate group a Henry mountains. On july 4. The America the Beautiful from the i Ellen. We use this area because of in Jdouglas Oneko Afeld director of one Day a can be Fai the i ing. Another Yon rent the i Fields. We Suom Ose the i year to  each person carried Only the Blanket poncho change of sods and packs of cracked wheat Oatmeal. Sugar Honey and dried vegetable i it w As Mush for breakfast and a i dinner. Most people lose 15 to is course. The specially on the Trail was Ash and water into a dough. Press it to Brown sugar and raisins. Fold the the edges together like a smile fcb it in the hot ashes of the open fire. 1 he rising agent. After it has Harden out. Blow off the Ash and bite into neb not even a warm Ash cake could i Val Livingston. I really Haven t enjoyed it that i 3-year-old lawyer from Salt Lake of one of those things you appreciate i get Home and think about it. I had and my girl Friend. U might be All right the girl Friend bad a lot to i Ston a taking the worse. Be my a Good idea to get away by Hub j be wanted to marry her. But a they became engaged. If there was any common Bond i pants besides an interest in the in  of  to beat