Tag: wilderness

Motherhood Moments: What’s Your Kind of Wilderness? – Our sixth article in the series from Susan Strayer

Our next article in the series from Susan Strayer who’s an inspiration to many with her Blog – Mountain Mom and Tots. Over spring break,…

The Cache Belt – innovative new fashion accessory features 24 hidden survival tools

The whole subject of surviving in the wilderness revolves around the notion that one must learn to survive as far as they could with the least provisions…

The Basic Psychology of an Off the Grid life

Before jumping into the intricacies and psychology of life in the wilderness, one needs to understand the mechanism that gives rise to the need of…

In 1911 Ishi emerged from the wilderness in California, the last member of his tribe, “the last wild Indian”

Paul Pinkerton

At the end of the summer of 1911,  a weak, starving native American man emerged from the Butte County wilderness into Oroville and became an…

Grow a forest in your backyard in less than a Decade

Doug Williams

If you don’t have an entire century at your disposal to create a whole a whole forest for yourself you can utilize some of the most…

Grab your bedroll – you can spend the night at these historic ghost towns

Doug Williams

Not all of us want to camp in the National Parks and serene wilderness, some of the more adventure seeking folks tend to look for more…

Four terrible things people have had to do to survive – even eating mans best friend

Doug Williams

  In my opinion, some of the most inspiring books ever written have been written by survivors. People who have come through and out the…

The Courageous Life and Death of Gerry Largay

Doug Williams

Gerry Largay was a sixty-six-year-old hiker who had disappeared from the Appalachian Trail in July of 2013. Since her disappearance, the sheriff had received hundreds…

Primitive Living as Metaphor

Paul Pinkerton

Here in Montana I practice and teach classes on primitive or stone age skills–which is to say, camping with little or no gear. We build…

Primitive Living as Metaphor

Paul Pinkerton

Here in Montana I practice and teach classes on primitive or stone age skills–which is to say, camping with little or no gear. We build…