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Natural Fiber Outdoor Clothing Part One

Field Guide, Gear & Technology, Non Toxic Clothing Guide / January 4, 2026

Why Natural Fibers Outperform Synthetic Gear Introduction Natural fiber outdoor clothing offers superior breathability, moisture regulation, and comfort compared with synthetic gear. Unlike synthetic materials that can trap moisture and heat, natural fibers like wool work with the body’s physiology. This supports thermo-regulation and creates a healthier micro-climate next to the skin. This alignment makes

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Natural Fiber Outdoor Clothing – Part Two

Field Guide, Gear & Technology, Non Toxic Clothing Guide / January 2, 2026

How to Build a Natural Fiber Outdoor Wardrobe That Actually Works Introduction A natural fiber outdoor wardrobe works best when clothing is treated as a system rather than individual garments. By using breathable materials like wool and waxed cotton, the body can regulate moisture and temperature more effectively, supporting comfort, adaptability, and long-term outdoor vitality

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Woman, man and child lounging on the floor in Eco Backrest floor chairs and cushions in a sunny wooden room

Deconstructing Sedentary

Field Guide, Primal Movement / January 4, 2024

How to Outsmart Sitting As a little boy growing up, in school I fidgeted in my chair, gazing out the window, daydreaming about all the fun things to do outside, running, climbing trees. It didn’t take decades of peer-reviewed research to tell me, sitting all day was killing me. And this was just the beginning–of

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Making Peace with the Cold: Five Practical Steps

Field Guide, Trail Nutrition / January 3, 2024

I have a love/hate relationship with winter. I have found the best way to deal with it is to surrender to it and merge with it rather than resist and dread it. There are so many benefits and tantalizing experiences in the austere qualities of cold, wind and short days. Winter is a great time

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Hearty Trail Foods for the Paleo Carnivore Backpacker

Field Guide, Trail Nutrition / November 18, 2023

Until recently is wasn’t easy to find packable animal-based foods which were ready for the trail. On a recent backpacking trip I tried some of the new convenient grass-fed, ready-to-go primal super foods and was delighted with the results. My menu consisted of a combination: This menu proved to be delicious (with an acquired taste),

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Patrick kneeling on a ground sheet in a snowy forest, in wool layers and a waxed jacket, holding a rolled blue wool sleeping bag

Wool Up for Winter at Home and on the Trail

Field Guide / February 10, 2020

It was almost by accident when I first learned about the power of wool to not only increase vitality but to up the comfort level of winter. It was at a time (late 1990s) I was well aware the outdoor community was adopting synthetics as the new best thing to stay warm. I too had

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Patrick Clark in a wool sweater and canvas jacket at a winter mountain overlook

Interview on Divine Superconductor Radio

Company News, Field Guide / January 11, 2020

Kickin off the new year with a bang…I had an awesome interview on Divine Superconductor Radio with Matt Blackburn about my upcoming book, The Rewilder’s Guide to Camping and Backpacking. We covered a ton of ground, going back to my epic journey from sickness to health with the Primal Diet, and how that lead into

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The Mystical Powers of Moving Water

Field Guide, Rewilding Adventures / December 8, 2019

The Schumann’s Field, if you recall, is also the frequency of the Alpha brain wave state which induces coherent heart rate and the Relaxation Response. There is another electrical field created by moving water such as streams, creeks, waterfalls where water is crashing over rocks. Even underground water has a charge and that is what

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White canvas tipi in a snowy winter forest

Adapting to the Cold: Two Secrets Revealed

Field Guide / November 9, 2019

I spent a total of three years from 2011-2014 on and off living in a tipi starting in summer and acclimatizing myself to winter by dipping in the cold mountain streams every day in incrementally longer times. When true winter hit it was still a shock. Would this really work? My fingers were so numb

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How Nature Speaks and Why We Need Rewilding

Field Guide, Rewilding Adventures / October 18, 2019

Spirit Guides and Nature are one and the same thing. The world speaks to us through symbols and each being and element in nature is a part of that language. So merely cultivating a relationship is all that matters even if it seems we don’t know what we are doing. The understanding can follow naturally. I

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