People often ask me how I got myself to fit into a 184 square foot tiny house (8’ x 23’). The answer is, by changing my paradigm about how I think about space, stuff and redefining what quality of life means to me. It didn’t happen overnight. It has taken me years of consistent effort
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This Native American delicious pemmican dish is a superfood that works great for modern day backpacking. Super light and nutrient dense!
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Tipi as shelter. It’s more of an escape from shelter. When shelter becomes numbing, cutting me off from the things I want to experience. I want the wind, rain, sun sweet breezes, birds. I WANT it. Tipi is not the best SHELTER as far as protecting from the environment. There are better, easier things out
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I had a strange entry into the world of Rewilding. When I was 15 years old (1979) I had a sudden awakening when watching a Native American History documentary that caused me to go home and reinvent my life. I got rid of the furniture in my room, taught myself to make moccasins, and started
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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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© 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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by Debra Lynn Dadd | Dec 8, 2015 | Textiles, Toxic Free Talk Radio, transcript | My guest today is Patrick Clark, creator of Lucky Sheep, the world’s first lightweight wool sleeping bag. We’ll be talking about how wool can improve the quality of your sleep and his new wool sleeping bag that can be
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Speaker Intro: Patrick Clark grew up in the Wayehutta Valley in Cullowhee, North Carolina where he developed a unique bond with nature. In college he majored in Outdoor Recreation and spent six weeks in Nantahala and Pisgua National Forests studying Outdoor Leadership with the legendary Paul Petzoldt (founder of NOLS, Outward Bound, and Wilderness Education
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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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The sun was rising over the frosty hillside. I forgot where I was as my eyes opened. I was outside somewhere, perhaps camping? I was so warm inside my sleeping bag, it was hard to imagine within inches were subfreezing temperatures. Oh yes, it was all coming back. Instead of walls and a house, I
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