Chapitre 318: Chapter 318: Winter Session

Pulling the hood of his black parka lower over his head, Scott ducked behind the windscreen of his snowmobile and headed back to the lodge. At the bunkhouse cabin, he’d just welcomed Tom and Patty Payton, the only married couple he’d had thus far in his wilderness school.

Having checked in with Jackie in the reception area of the lodge, the pair had made their way on foot across the ice to the island where they joined fellow survival students Justin Sapp, a stocky young man with an infectious sense of humor, and Paula Martinez, an attractive thirty-something Latina who wrote a Spanish-language adventure blog.

Everyone in this session had broad outdoor-survival experience, including the Paytons, who had once spent a year in the Amazon cataloging wildlife. They’d told Scott they were excited to learn winter survival skills in the wilderness of Ontario.

That leaves four more clients yet to arrive, Scott mused as he pulled up the slope to park beneath the lodge’s deck.