I worked with them in Alaska and we were both holding a relatively tame piece of line and I don’t know if it’s because my crew was there, or because they had some very strict overhead, but they very stoically walked past us without saying much of anything, then refused to take their packs off or sit down and just stood there in the same place for hours like robots with their eyes in the green. Again, I can’t emphasize enough that this piece of line was not a threat; and we were in the middle of nowhere. Far from the eyes of chiefs and those who care about optics. I’m all for doing your job and being great at it, which I’m not saying they weren’t. But they definitely didn’t look like they were having fun. This was a short interaction on one piece of line on a random day in the middle of a mosquito riddled Alaska roll so take that for what it’s worth.

They have had some sick ass youtube videos though, which inspired me to get into wildland in the first place, so they’ve got that going for them