BOSS: Section 1: Day 2
Day 2: We learned how to stay warm at night, and ate an edible plant called spiderwart, also known as Camus, it looks very similar to death Camus and can only be obviously differentiated when in bloom, Camus has a blue flower, while it's deadly counterpart a more yellowish flower, I liked the roots and stem but the leaves had an odd spicy taste to them. We also tried dandelion and violet leaves which I took a bite of but the wart had made my stomach uncomfortable, then we had these red berries (Sumac) that were sour and calmed my stomach, at first. They taste like lemonade if you put them in water. Then Rob, a 35 year old Canadian on our trip with only one leg and interesting stories tried to catch a trout with his hands, but missed, then later our instructor Dave made a two-pointed spear, and Mike (the youngest besides me (25)) caught a sucker fish of good size (almost six inches!), we'll all (10) of us have supper tonight! And we stopped when the sun was still up for at least an hour! We made a group bed out of the ponderosa pine that was not unabundant, and Dave made a fire with a bowdrill, it was magical watching it. It's amazing how a fish of that size can stuff a group of ten, it was like the last supper or something like that where one fish seems so bountiful, the only thing we didn't eat were the guts, and when we took all the meat off the bones we put them on the fire and ate them like potato chips when they were cruchilly done. It was also a female so we cooked up her roe, it wasn't salty at all, and kind of gritty, I didn't much care for it, but it was edible!