We share expeditions and journeys into nature and how we connect with these through the practice of rewilding. This is where the soul meets the trail, and we get a chance to try out our natural fiber outdoor gear, ancestral diet, and grounding in real time. We also explore the spiritual connection with nature and the power of pilgrimage to transform our lives.
During a two year span I spent six months on and six months off living in a tipi as I was exploring how to merge with nature, sleep on the earth, and all this without leaving my job and society. I started in the summer of 2012 and practiced Cold Thermogenesis in the South Toe
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See Part One Here: Planning and Gear Breakdown Join Kevin Anderson as he tests out his all wool clothing set and Lucky Sheep Sleeping Bag on the Trans Zion Trail in early April with his buddies who have mostly synthetic gear. Day 1: After our flights into Vegas, rental car pickup, shopping for supplies, the
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What would you take if you were backpacking five days traversing the Zion National Park? We are lucky to have a complete gear breakdown by Kevin Anderson who is right now testing the Lucky Sheep Rewilder Sleeping Bag as part of his gear set, as he grabs one more adventure in before he becomes a
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Who invented the sleeping bag? Nobody, and everybody who ever slept where it was cold. When were sleeping bags invented? Thousands of years before the first patent, in the Arctic, where the Inuit sleeping bag (what older books call an Eskimo sleeping bag) was a caribou hide sewn fur-side in. Ask when was the sleeping
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© 1993 Patrick Clark (First published in Kokopelli Notes) From the travels of Marco Polo through China to those of Lewis and Clark across North America and Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon, people have long been fascinated with travel and mobility. Today transportation dominates the social landscape. A cursory glance at any town or
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This weekend I showed Lucky Sheep Sleeping Bags at the Outdoor Gear Builders of Western North Carolina’s annual Get in Gear Fest. This was a collaboration of diverse outdoor gear builders showing their wares. It was 38 Degrees and sometimes drizzly and that was actually perfect for our gear because it shows how important it
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My “tipi quest” became an experiment in minimalist design, embodied cognition, and lived philosophy. I think with my body as much as my mind. I test ideas somatically. Instinct and intuition are not abstract concepts to me—they are tools.
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