I was in a boy scout troop with similar minded leaders who were Vietnam vets in the early 70’s in So. FL. Their idea of good times were the deepest, most remote parts of the everglades and big cypress swamp.
Isn’t it amazing what we went through back then? But that kind of stuff made me fearless. We sue to go down the Delaware river canoing as well in April and it would be absolutely freezing, the canoe would tip over and I felt like I was drowning and dying and then we’d freeze in these tents, I was only 12! LOL LOL. Today if they did that with Boy Scout troops they’d be sued out of existence..