I was born in 1941. I grew-up there! Very near Ely. We girls ran the woods, had jack-knives and a 22 rifle of our own; built campfires, cooked fish outdoors, built things,, sawed trees down,, chopped wood,, went canoeing, tenting, fishing, partridge hunting, ice skated on the ponds in winter. We were tough and happy. We even did girly things. That was the Northwoods girls. Those Minneapolis girls were indoor pansies!
@@Ninjabunnybear Sad question indeed. I hope you're one of the rare teens who missed the tech addiction People who live in large towns and big cities are barely the same species as we ''hicks from the sticks" anyway, but your generation is like from a different planet because of technology that small town kids and farm kids don't have as much time for. But honestly I have mixed feelings over you guys and your tech lives; while I have created a whole lot of fun and a bit of money using technology since 2006, it's like booze and cigarettes in that you've got to stop sooner or later or it will bite you in the butt!! I don't blame your generation for overdoing the use of tech as much as I blame the technology itself which has been deliberately designed to make addicts of y'all who use it. Billions of dollars have been spent to pay the BEST dudes there are to design the most powerfully addictive apps etc for the sole purpose of swallowing up the free will and suffocating the creative desires of young people. I also blame the parents and grandparents who allowed their little children to have screen time from such early ages. Parents have been real irresponsible goofs in so many ways! (Don't get me started on that issue!) Hope I've written coherently to you, my brain has been slightly fried on overuse of TH-cam this year. Lol Bless you! 🇺🇸
I agree! Growing up in the country on a farm, I was the 5TH GIRL, in a family of 10 girls and 3 boys! WE DID EVERYTHING, and now relegated to DOING EVERYTHING STILL! When will my day come to be treated like a QUEEN like these silly girls who think they were SO DEPRIVED. Women libbers DESTROYED our MYSTIQUE, and BEING TREASURED!
@@leighburville2717 wowh I totally agree. Alot of peopl have to much attacments online. I grew up outside and still love being outside. My love for nature and art is unmatched😂 thank you so much for your time , have a great day 🇧🇸
@@slomo1716 Women's libbers didn't "destroy" anything. They opened the door to more options. You may not have found a man willing to treat you like your idea of gold, but guess what. Being treasured doesn't always mean being treated like a weakling. I'm an at-home mom with a husband who treats me like goddamned gold. If I'm having a rough day, he'll bring me cinnamon gummy bears and a potted orchid. If my back hurts, he'll rub it. If I'm upset, he'll let me cry and hold me. And because of women's lib, he respects me as a human rather than viewing me as property.
The greatest barriers anyone has to overcome aren't physical. They are mental. Those are the changes that stick even as these ladies got older and moved on. Thank you for this inspirational story.
Oh my! What a lovely documentary. While I did not do Outwardbound (my brother did) I was blessed to be a part of the Colorado youth conservation corps as a teen. I also did a week long dory trip in Maine. Both of those two experiences changed me and made me a better human being. If you can do something like this- DO IT! As I get ready to turn 60, I wonder if it’s too late to do one more adventure like this. I think You’ve inspired me to look into it. Gracias
Nothing is too late when you are imagining it.... If you can see it in your mind you can do it... A lesson I learned a couple minutes ago after I read your message... It is never too late!
Outward bound changed my life and brought me to nature in the best way.. i had to click right away when I saw the title...this is such an awesome moment in women's history, thanks for posting!!
Recently when I was speaking at a high-school career day I was asked a question that I have still pondered, did I answer it right. A girl asked me "who inspires me". I quickly responded and said "this may sound narcissistic, but I inspire me" and "I don't look to others to motivate me, I motivate myself" and "I don't look to be like anyone other than me". I don't think I satisfied her but now that I have seen this documentary, I feel I answered just right. We motivate and challenge ourselves not to prove to others we can. We only need to prove it to ourselves. I loved this, thank you for sharing.
@Malus When a man who cannot compete and win against other men, decides the only way to win is PRETEND TO BE A WOMAN, is a CHEATER. Stealing a woman's award! I also feel that way about WOMEN, who pretend to do a MAN'S JOB, but are NOT strong enough to do the job and relies on a MAN to do her heavy lifting is unjustly STEALING A MAN'S JOB!!!
@Malus And if the whiny Jewish girl were in ISRAEL she's have to sign up for TWO YEARS SERVIC! I have always held the belief that BOTH boys and girls would learn a lot IF they were ALSO mandated to do MILITARY SERVICE FOR THEIR COUNTRY/USA!
Born in 1960, I grew up in wilderness, on lighthouses, with the sea at my front door. What these women experienced and acheived opened a whole world for them that most people, then and now, will never know. There are people today who only have the freedom they don't think about because of the experiences of these women and others who dared to throw off the shackles of convention.
Such an informative and touching account. I remember reading about this group. I so wanted to go to Outward Bound. It didn't happen for a lot of reasons, but I'm grateful that opportunities began to open up for girls and women in the '60s and '70s (and are still opening up today).
When I heard one pair of underwear, my first thought was this. What did they do for their periods? It was a full 4 weeks so surely happened at some point for each of them.
Wonderful story! This probably paved the way for the Boy Scouts to start a branch called "Explorer Scouts" Troops would be formed with a base theme, ie: police, firefighters...or Sea Scouts which is the troop I joined just before I turned 14. We had a old retired salty dog Naval chief and a state parole officer abd his wife as advisors. We learned how to repel, man a sail boat, camp in Feb., cave exploration, primitive caming, self defense plus a gob of civil service projects. I was the 2nd girl in IN to join the "Boy Scouts" in 1971. I was on a downward path and It made me stonger, braver and more capable. I went on to become a machinist, electronics technician and build my own house. My children have benefited from my passing on to them the love of a challenge and bravery to try. I took my kids and now grandkids on "survival" adventures. Thank you for paving the way..
What a great adventure you've had. Boy Scout Explorers started in the '40s for boys, Sea Scouts earlier. It was indeed a while before Explorers became coed. Girl Scouts had some great programs in the '60s when things were starting to open up, too.
It was absolutely amazing watching it on PBS this morning! Thank you for sharing such a wonderful memories with us, and thank you for what it meant for us back then. God bless all of you!
I'm fascinated because I'm the same age (but not American) and was never told that I couldn't do something because I was a girl. There were some girls who expected to work in a shop until they got married but certainly not everyone. I came from a working class family in an industrial town but was always encouraged to 'be the best I could be, went on to university and graduated in medicine. We were the first contraceptive pill generation. These were wonderful women on the brink of a whole new world
I was born and raised in Brasil. One of my most wonderful memorie of my teenage years, what's the time that I spent three months up in the mountain in Brasil, called Secretario, RJ... The first eighteen days was a nightmare... On the way up the mountain my mommy and I got lost, night was coming and all I could see as I walked through the path was snakes all over the place... Mind you, I had never seen a real life snake in my life. I developed a rash all over my body, and bled for 18 days out of plain fear... I know people have shingles in some parts of they body but I had it all over. For 18 days.... But after that, the people that looked after the mountain, put me on a horse, and it was pure joy.... For the next two and a half months, I was fishing I was hunting, I was bringing food to the table.... I felt one with the mountain, and in the Baptist family I was living with, although I was raised a Catholic, I learned every song the beautiful family used to share with me... After I got back to my world, I went to Europe, and then came to the United States of America. Some people leave they heart in San Francisco, I Left My heart in that mountain..... We had nothing... but we had everything.... Sometimes when you are young, you don't realize, how little do you need to be truly happy.... But life is a journey, if I had not taken that journey I wouldn't have my beloved Son, and his father.... But someday, I hope to go back to nature. Sweet memories in the corners of my mind
Good thing my father never heard of this, he would have sent me for sure and I would have loved it - but what does being Jewish have to do with it? This was a wonder video!
Happy to report feminism can be advanced by anyone, anytime. Small things can have big impacts. There are some classroom STEM changes co-ed schools can do avoiding the puberty drop in girls scores.
I'm a real woman, and am a feminist. My husband is a real man, and is a feminist. I have friends who are real agender of real nonbinary who are feminists. All a feminist is is a person who believes that female humans deserve the same rights and opportunities as anyone else.
In a time when there was more religious segregation, a mixed group religiously was not common. Everyone was taught that everyone else was wrong and bad, and these girls had to overlook that.
What did i just get myself into ... Writing stuff on bark and fire ?! Thought this was about Extreme Survival ?!? They going to burn sanitary napkins and bra's next ??! Not a good way to start a video. This better git gud as the kids say ... i wont hold my breath .
I was born in 1941. I grew-up there! Very near Ely. We girls ran the woods, had jack-knives and a 22 rifle of our own; built campfires, cooked fish outdoors, built things,, sawed trees down,, chopped wood,, went canoeing, tenting, fishing, partridge hunting, ice skated on the ponds in winter. We were tough and happy. We even did girly things. That was the Northwoods girls. Those Minneapolis girls were indoor pansies!
I have a question, How do you feel with the world transitioning to mainly being functional with electronic use - I was born in 06
@@Ninjabunnybear Sad question indeed. I hope you're one of the rare teens who missed the tech addiction
People who live in large towns and big cities are barely the same species as we ''hicks from the sticks" anyway, but your generation is like from a different planet because of technology that small town kids and farm kids don't have as much time for.
But honestly I have mixed feelings over you guys and your tech lives; while I have created a whole lot of fun and a bit of money using technology since 2006, it's like booze and cigarettes in that you've got to stop sooner or later or it will bite you in the butt!!
I don't blame your generation for overdoing the use of tech as much as I blame the technology itself which has been deliberately designed to make addicts of y'all who use it.
Billions of dollars have been spent to pay the BEST dudes there are to design the most powerfully addictive apps etc for the sole purpose of swallowing up the free will and suffocating the creative desires of young people.
I also blame the parents and grandparents who allowed their little children to have screen time from such early ages.
Parents have been real irresponsible goofs in so many ways! (Don't get me started on that issue!)
Hope I've written coherently to you, my brain has been slightly fried on overuse of TH-cam this year. Lol
Bless you!
🇺🇸
I agree! Growing up in the country on a farm, I was the 5TH GIRL, in a family of 10 girls and 3 boys! WE DID EVERYTHING, and now relegated to DOING EVERYTHING STILL! When will my day come to be treated like a QUEEN like these silly girls who think they were SO DEPRIVED. Women libbers DESTROYED our MYSTIQUE, and BEING TREASURED!
@@leighburville2717 wowh I totally agree. Alot of peopl have to much attacments online. I grew up outside and still love being outside. My love for nature and art is unmatched😂
thank you so much for your time , have a great day
🇧🇸
@@slomo1716 Women's libbers didn't "destroy" anything. They opened the door to more options. You may not have found a man willing to treat you like your idea of gold, but guess what. Being treasured doesn't always mean being treated like a weakling. I'm an at-home mom with a husband who treats me like goddamned gold. If I'm having a rough day, he'll bring me cinnamon gummy bears and a potted orchid. If my back hurts, he'll rub it. If I'm upset, he'll let me cry and hold me. And because of women's lib, he respects me as a human rather than viewing me as property.
The greatest barriers anyone has to overcome aren't physical. They are mental. Those are the changes that stick even as these ladies got older and moved on. Thank you for this inspirational story.
Oh my! What a lovely documentary. While I did not do Outwardbound (my brother did) I was blessed to be a part of the Colorado youth conservation corps as a teen. I also did a week long dory trip in Maine. Both of those two experiences changed me and made me a better human being. If you can do something like this- DO IT! As I get ready to turn 60, I wonder if it’s too late to do one more adventure like this. I think You’ve inspired me to look into it. Gracias
Nothing is too late when you are imagining it.... If you can see it in your mind you can do it... A lesson I learned a couple minutes ago after I read your message... It is never too late!
Outward bound changed my life and brought me to nature in the best way.. i had to click right away when I saw the title...this is such an awesome moment in women's history, thanks for posting!!
Chandged my mother's life and mine and my kids as a result
Recently when I was speaking at a high-school career day I was asked a question that I have still pondered, did I answer it right. A girl asked me "who inspires me". I quickly responded and said "this may sound narcissistic, but I inspire me" and "I don't look to others to motivate me, I motivate myself" and "I don't look to be like anyone other than me". I don't think I satisfied her but now that I have seen this documentary, I feel I answered just right. We motivate and challenge ourselves not to prove to others we can. We only need to prove it to ourselves.
I loved this, thank you for sharing.
This was amazing. Thank you for uploading. 🙏🏻
Absolutely wonderful story. It is amazing to see these stories of women doing things they were told they couldn't do.
First woman? "Girls" lol they don't look like children.
@Malus When a man who cannot compete and win against other men, decides the only way to win is PRETEND TO BE A WOMAN, is a CHEATER. Stealing a woman's award! I also feel that way about WOMEN, who pretend to do a MAN'S JOB, but are NOT strong enough to do the job and relies on a MAN to do her heavy lifting is unjustly STEALING A MAN'S JOB!!!
@Malus And if the whiny Jewish girl were in ISRAEL she's have to sign up for TWO YEARS SERVIC! I have always held the belief that BOTH boys and girls would learn a lot IF they were ALSO mandated to do MILITARY SERVICE FOR THEIR COUNTRY/USA!
Awesome video
Awesome video- Ely is a beautiful area to experience. I wish I'd known about Outward Bound sooner!
Born in 1960, I grew up in wilderness, on lighthouses, with the sea at my front door.
What these women experienced and acheived opened a whole world for them that most people, then and now, will never know.
There are people today who only have the freedom they don't think about because of the experiences of these women and others who dared to throw off the shackles of convention.
This made me cry. These woman are amazing and so inspiring!
24:00 🤣 The moose just watching them panic burning down their shelter in the process just to sigh and walk away is such a visual
Such an informative and touching account.
I remember reading about this group. I so wanted to go to Outward Bound. It didn't happen for a lot of reasons, but I'm grateful that opportunities began to open up for girls and women in the '60s and '70s (and are still opening up today).
Love history ♥
These ladies are awesome and such an example. God bless them all
When I heard one pair of underwear, my first thought was this. What did they do for their periods? It was a full 4 weeks so surely happened at some point for each of them.
Absolutely loved this. How inspiring. I was 10 in 1965. A very moving walk down memory lane!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderful story! This probably paved the way for the Boy Scouts to start a branch called "Explorer Scouts" Troops would be formed with a base theme, ie: police, firefighters...or Sea Scouts which is the troop I joined just before I turned 14. We had a old retired salty dog Naval chief and a state parole officer abd his wife as advisors. We learned how to repel, man a sail boat, camp in Feb., cave exploration, primitive caming, self defense plus a gob of civil service projects. I was the 2nd girl in IN to join the "Boy Scouts" in 1971. I was on a downward path and It made me stonger, braver and more capable. I went on to become a machinist, electronics technician and build my own house. My children have benefited from my passing on to them the love of a challenge and bravery to try. I took my kids and now grandkids on "survival" adventures. Thank you for paving the way..
What a great adventure you've had.
Boy Scout Explorers started in the '40s for boys, Sea Scouts earlier. It was indeed a while before Explorers became coed. Girl Scouts had some great programs in the '60s when things were starting to open up, too.
Thank you for this video ! 😊💐
It was absolutely amazing watching it on PBS this morning! Thank you for sharing such a wonderful memories with us, and thank you for what it meant for us back then. God bless all of you!
I'm fascinated because I'm the same age (but not American) and was never told that I couldn't do something because I was a girl. There were some girls who expected to work in a shop until they got married but certainly not everyone. I came from a working class family in an industrial town but was always encouraged to 'be the best I could be, went on to university and graduated in medicine. We were the first contraceptive pill generation. These were wonderful women on the brink of a whole new world
So cool. Thank you.
I love this story! Would want to watch thus outdoors in a projector beside a camp fire ♥️
I LOVE, LOVE this video! Thank you sooo much ladies, you guys rock!❤❤
This is empowerment. Absolutely beautiful! ❤️
I was born and raised in Brasil. One of my most wonderful memorie of my teenage years, what's the time that I spent three months up in the mountain in Brasil, called Secretario, RJ... The first eighteen days was a nightmare... On the way up the mountain my mommy and I got lost, night was coming and all I could see as I walked through the path was snakes all over the place... Mind you, I had never seen a real life snake in my life. I developed a rash all over my body, and bled for 18 days out of plain fear... I know people have shingles in some parts of they body but I had it all over. For 18 days.... But after that, the people that looked after the mountain, put me on a horse, and it was pure joy.... For the next two and a half months, I was fishing I was hunting, I was bringing food to the table.... I felt one with the mountain, and in the Baptist family I was living with, although I was raised a Catholic, I learned every song the beautiful family used to share with me... After I got back to my world, I went to Europe, and then came to the United States of America. Some people leave they heart in San Francisco, I Left My heart in that mountain..... We had nothing... but we had everything.... Sometimes when you are young, you don't realize, how little do you need to be truly happy.... But life is a journey, if I had not taken that journey I wouldn't have my beloved Son, and his father.... But someday, I hope to go back to nature. Sweet memories in the corners of my mind
Good thing my father never heard of this, he would have sent me for sure and I would have loved it - but what does being Jewish have to do with it? This was a wonder video!
This is awesome! I want to go!!! 😃😃😃
Nice
Absolutely Beautiful!
for most of today’s youth they are not fit to spend in the woods that way
Lol the snake story is the best XD
Lucky that moose did not f them up!
too bad it didn't WAKE them up!!!
wow cool
Feeling very powerfull being the second like, ngl
Back in the day when feminists were actually real women
Yeah? Well that's just like, your opinion, Man.
Happy to report feminism can be advanced by anyone, anytime.
Small things can have big impacts.
There are some classroom STEM changes co-ed schools can do avoiding the puberty drop in girls scores.
Keep whinging.
I'm a real woman, and am a feminist. My husband is a real man, and is a feminist. I have friends who are real agender of real nonbinary who are feminists. All a feminist is is a person who believes that female humans deserve the same rights and opportunities as anyone else.
Why is everyone’s description starting with their religion?
In a time when there was more religious segregation, a mixed group religiously was not common. Everyone was taught that everyone else was wrong and bad, and these girls had to overlook that.
She she she camps?
"she camps with her CRAMPS"?? So very very BRAVE OF HER.
What did i just get myself into ... Writing stuff on bark and fire ?! Thought this was about Extreme Survival ?!? They going to burn sanitary napkins and bra's next ??! Not a good way to start a video. This better git gud as the kids say ... i wont hold my breath .
Doesn't sound like your brain requires much oxygen anyways.
@@Cascadiarch Requires a Hell of a lot more than these planks ... burning Bark like it does something . Feelings are not Fact .
@@fetus2280 Then ignore your's, you poor upset little thing.
God Bless YOU - You're so RIGHT!!!
@@fetus2280 AMEN again you are so RIGHT!!!!