Paleo Trail Foods Recipe: Carrots Alive Breakfast Salad
How to Make Pemmican
This Native American delicious pemmican dish is a superfood that works great for modern day backpacking. Super light and nutrient dense!
Rewilding Your Outdoor Clothing Part Three
I have created a set of outdoor clothing utilizing wool and waxed cotton primarily. This gear packs into a 20 lb. base weight backpack for all year hiking and camping. I show how my natural fiber outdoor wardrobe fits into my backpack and how each article coordinates together to create an effective camping experience in …
Home Sweet Tipi: Notes from The Tipi Experiment
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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Embracing Minimalism and Environments that Make our Bodies Work: Podcast
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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Rewilding Your Outdoor Clothing: Part Two (The Shell)
See Part One here: In May of 1984 when I embarked on an outdoor leadership training expedition with Paul Petholdt and 21 other students in Nantahala National Forest In the Shining Rock Wilderness which was basically the backyard of the land where I grew up in Cullowhee, North Carolina. During the this six week wilderness …
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Sleeping on a Firm Surface How and Why
Q. It seems so counterintuitive. How can a big soft bed be uncomfortable and a board be comfortable?  A. The soft modern bed is like a wheelchair for an ailing society. It is only comfortable is your definition of comfortable is NUMBING, where you do no work and it does the work for you. You have …
The Tipi Experience Series
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 …
Trans Zion Trail Trek Part Two
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 …