The body is the first piece of gear: cold, movement, rest and rewilding.
The body is the first piece of gear.
Before insulation, there is adaptation. These articles are about getting comfortable in the cold — making peace with the cold in five practical steps, adapting to the cold, and ten tips to stay warm on a cold day — and about moving and resting the way bodies are built to: on the ground, outside, in varied positions.
It is the thinking behind Patrick’s book, A Rewilder’s Guide to Outdoor Adventure, and it includes practical backcountry pieces like snake and insect bite first aid and how not to get beaten by the mountain. These are one outdoorsman’s experience and views, not medical advice.
ASHEVILLE, NC | Summer 2025 — Wellness often feels disconnected from nature. Asheville-based innovator Patrick Clark seeks to change this with his book. He invites readers back to the source with A Rewilder’s Guide to Outdoor Adventure: Self-Healing in Nature. Recently released, the revolutionary book is reaching audiences seeking a more embodied, regenerative approach to
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Prepping for the Trekking: A full body workout Backpacking is an extreme sport. The physical exertion is unlike almost anything in daily life. Your entire body is suddenly thrust into carrying a heavy load it’s not accustomed to. To boot, every 1,000 feet of elevation gain or loss adds the equivalent energy expenditure of walking
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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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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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Most snake and insect bites in the backcountry are frightening but manageable. A few are genuine emergencies. The difference between a good outcome and a bad one is almost never a remedy in your pack — it is how quickly you recognise the serious cases and how calmly you get the person to definitive care.
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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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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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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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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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People want to know “How can I feel better?” That is what Biohacking, Rewilding, Ancestral Health are all about. In a nutshell, this new approach to health explores how our environment influences our biology. From that we glean the essentials to vibrant robust health, supercharged immunity, healing from disease and injury, and basically the fountain
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