This activity poses twelve situations that someone lost in awilderness might encounter--snakes, bears, an early snow, and otherpotentially life-threatening scenarios. Your team members makeindividual, then group decisions about how to survive eachsituation. These decisions are then compared with those provided byexpert naturalists. Your team will quickly see how they fared inmaking decisions together.

The Leader's Manual offers complete instructions for facilitatingthis simple activity, answers and rationale, plus discussionmaterial.

Timing: 1-1/2 hours

Audience: Work teams--4 to 9 team members may participate at onetime--several groups may be directed simultaneously

Jossey-Bass Pfeiffer is the author of Wilderness Survival, Leader's Manual, published by Wiley.