I was expecting something awful like causing the nest to explode sent a bunch of surviving angry wasps everywhere because they weren ' t properly burnt . Or a portion of the nest surviving and landing near them instead , also letting lots of angry wasps out <| sep |> It ' s a balance . Go for one lesson that you ' d consider great per week per class . During your first year you are literally trying to survive . You can use PowerPoint every day if you have to to avoid burning out . You will NEVER have enough time to get everything right . Your first year , you try to survive . Every year after that , you try to get better and better . Trying too hard will make you burn out . <| sep |> Went on my first serious mountain backpacking trip this summer . Hiked up to the peak of Mt . Cokely on Vancouver Island and camped right at the peak . My air mattress popped so it was a pretty sleepless night . I got up around midnight to shoot some star photography and went back to bed . I was dozing in and out of consciousness when at three AM I swear I heard voices . About ten feet from our tent . Mt . Cokely requires a brutal scramble of an ascent which , even in the daytime is quite dangerous . It was one of those lay dead still and hope you don ' t die kind of experiences . This isn ' t the kind of place where locals come to do mushrooms and look at the stars . This is a commitment of a hike . It ' s a good onehour drive from the nearest metropolis , Port Alberni . It requires navigating unmarked logging roads to get to an abandoned ski hill and then the ascent from there is somewhere north of gruelling . But there were voices . From the summit . Which was only accessible by the narrow sliver of land that our tent was pitched on . There is no other way to the summit where the radio towers are . Not exactly a bear scare or machetewielding maniac level , but that really got the adrenaline going . Woke up and found no signs of people other than some tens about a thousand feet below us about and hour and half of daytime hiking because of the technicality at the side of the lake .