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When people ask, "What is Minn-a-kee and what do you do there?", the first thing I automat- ically tell them is that Minn-a-kee is an outdoor education pro- gramme that runs during second semester. We have a cabin and a large property located be- tween Gibralter and the Old Blind Line road; where each day we learn about nature, the en- vironment and perform first-hand outdoor studies and experi- ments. Now, with the boring part over, I could talk for hours about all the great times we had cross country skiing, tobogganning at lunch and competing for the height record owned by Greg "Air" Howard, cliff jumping on snow shoes - Jeff preferred 30 feet and above; the giant mud fights- Gen always started them, and sun tanning; and the best of fond memories and all those great times together - the list
goes on and on.
wanting to give in for fear of what the others might think. Then there is those frustrating snow labs; on the phone for hours on end comparing data and an- swers which never seemed to match up with the rest of your group; and staying up until 3 a.m. during the last few nights re- writing, correcting and squeez-
ing in those last bits of information. Or, perhaps you spent 2 days in the rain and cold and mud plotting your transect map North to South, only to find out that due to certain physical characteristics of the land, it must be redone and plotted West to East this time . There were those and many other trying times when our patience with one another was stretched to its very ends, and we had to ask ourselves why we were doing this.
Below: Mr. Nickel made it all happen and gave us 5 of the best months of our lives. I know I speak on behalf of the group when I say, "Thank you, Mr. Nickel. We oweitalltoyou."
- photos and write-up by Kevin Hodgins Top Rt.: Members of the 1990 class were: A Lulechis, A McCullogh. G. Howard, G. Currie, P. Mitchell. J. Morris, L. Sheffer, G. Rhodes. S. Worts, K. Hodgins, A Saund- ers. T. Deffett, J. Crago, C. Caughill, M. Cox,A Dickinson,B.Chandler,T.J.Brown, S. McCullogh, S. Death, J. Truscott
Outdoor Education At Its' Best
GIVE US THE FRESH AIR
Now that it is over and I look back, I can see that all of the tri- However, what people don't als and tribulations actually made us better persons. They taught us the virtues of self con- fidence, the warmth of friendship and caring, and better under- standing of the people around us. It made us into a close united group with feelings and friend- ships that will last a lifetime and
hear about is the physical pain, the mental stress and the psy- chological undoing that we all experienced throughout the course. There were times when you were just too tired to carry on as every bone and muscle ached, but you stumbled along anyway, quietly, in a daze, not
never be forgotten.