> Ray wrote: 
> I made it to Eagle scout - it was a lot of work, and I really don't see
> what achieving it really ever got me in life. 

I went to college with an Eagle Scout and he was always talking up his
survival abilities.

Well, during one break I agreed to go to his hometown where he was
going to take me snowmobiling into "the sticks" which I had never
done.  We got miles into the woods when he announced that he could
build a bonfire in deep snow and then we were going to roast some
weenies for lunch.

He started the fire and then went into the woods to get some roasting
sticks;  at this point I was pretty impressed with his navigation and
survival abilities.

To get the roasting sticks he had a Swiss Army knife in his left hand
and was pulling off a branch with his right when it suddenly gave way
plunging his hand down onto the knife.

When he came walking back with a trail of bright red blood in the snow
behind him, I knew something was wrong.

Long story short, by the time we got him back and then began driving
to the hospital which was 40 minutes away, he was freaking out and
hallucinating that there were bugs in his wound.  It took him a few
months to recover.

So that's my Eagle Scout experience :)

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