Utah State
University students present Survival Night
By Claire
Hubbard
Six students
from Utah State University’s Parks
and Recreation Management program will be hosting Stokes Survival Night on
Friday. The event will be sponsored by Stokes Nature Center at Nibley Property.
The students have been planning this outing since the beginning of the
school year. This will be their big end of the year event in which they are
given the opportunity to utilize what they have learned.
“Everyone
involved will benefit from it,” said Haley Turner, the recreation management student directing the
event. “We get the chance to teach our skills to the participants and the
participants will get experience in implementing survival skills.”
Patrick Bentley, a certified
search and rescue professional, will be assisting the students in teaching
basic survival techniques.
“It’s important to be prepared in
a survival situation,” Bentley said. “Even if people plan on going on a mile or
two hike, they could be faced in a situation where they would need basic
survival skills. People always hear about what they should do but they don’t actually
know how to apply them.”
Participants will gain skills in
fire building, shelter building, water purification, and hunting and gathering.
“People can sleep in the shelters
they make,” said David Lincoln, another recreation management student aiding
the event. “This is a fun and unique event. It isn’t like anything that has
happened before.”
There will be prizes and
giveaways for certain survival challenges and situations.
“The prizes are actually
awesome,” Lincoln said. “People could win $50 to Sportsman’s Warehouse, a pass
to The Rock Haus, a camping stove, a bike tune, a tent or Chacos sandals.”
The cost to participate in
Survival Night is $10. All proceeds benefit Stokes Nature Center.
“People are definitely going to
get their money’s worth,” Turner said. “This is a one time experience and they
are guaranteed to gain something from it.”
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