Trip reports in the Rewilder format: location, conditions, equipment, what happened, what worked, what didn't, what we learned.
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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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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When I think of my proverbial ‘happy place’ it is out under the big blue sky either in a desert, wind swept prairie, or mountain top. It isn’t any one place. It is the world. It is all those incredible places of roaring wild nature that I have not yet seen, as well as just
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