I was sent here when I was 15 and I m 28 now. I ha...

I was sent here when I was 15 and I m 28 now. I have to say I don t agree with sending your badly behaved children away like this BUT the review written by Alex is absolutely insane. The only true part of it was about the hot water not being allowed to cook the dehydrated beans and rice. If we couldn t bust a fire we had to use cold water with the beans and rice and that didn t cook them at all so they d stay rock hard, and it was winter when I was there so the water was ice cold. Everything else she wrote is preposterous. No one was EVER tied up or blindfolded (although I did try to remember all the turns to my first campsite so I could run away quickly realized how far we were going so I never attempted lol). And we were certainly NEVER told our parents hate us or didn t want to talk to us. And no one was driven to a residential home for a doctor visit. And there was no strip search. Going to the bathroom was never ever discouraged. Actually the staff made me eat prunes after I was there for 3 days and never asked to use the latrine because they were concerned for my health...I was actually laying surfies because I was too embarrassed to ask to use the latrine.

I absolutely understand feeling trauma from this experience (although it wasn t that bad for me my 2 year therapeutic boarding school after wilderness on the other hand was extremely traumatic) but why make things up? I m sure someone could think of plenty of other things that might make this a bad company. But again, I grew to love Wilderness. After 3 weeks I was in better shape so hiking became much easier which made everything much more enjoyable. The therapy sessions weren t bad and the group therapy also wasn t bad. Especially compared to that evil boarding school I got sent to after. I can t say the therapy helped me really, I was an extremely hard headed teen who didn t want help. But I am grateful for the things I learned about the great outdoors while I was there