by Parker Calley | Feb 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
What are Gait Studies? Gait refers to the movement pattern the animal is using and the corresponding gait pattern is left for trackers to interpret. In human terms, walk, jog, run, sprint, sit, stand, kneel, etc, etc. Think of an action an animal can take and where...
by Parker Calley | Feb 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Origins Program is a journey over nine months where we practice and build a variety of traditional skills, with the goal of going on a weeklong trip into the woods and utilizing them. The rules for the final trip are simple; no metal, no glass, no paper, and no...
by Brad Salon | Feb 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Tracking in the snow is cheating right? It can feel that way when much of the year you can struggle to find any clear prints to identify, any gait patterns to decipher, or trails to follow. You learn pretty quickly to look in track traps along wet areas, in protected...
by Brad Salon | Feb 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Stone tools! I love stone tools, and what started with an obsession with making pretty arrows heads has turned into a life long journey to understand how to make and use effective tools that can be used to meet my wilderness living needs. Sure I have cases of pretty...
by Brad Salon | Feb 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Cold Realities of Hypothermia…A few Tips For Staying Safe in the Winter Sorry. Couldn’t resist. Hypothermia- Basically your body cannot maintain its core temperature and it sucks heat from your extremities to your core until your organs shut down and...
by Brad Salon | Feb 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
A Vermonter’s Tips For Getting Outside In The Winter Winter Solstice in one week! On that day the sun will deliver a whopping 8 hours and 51 minutes of daylight to us here in Vermont, which is not enough. Soon, El Nino will leave us, temps will drop far below...
by Brad Salon | Feb 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Or, some basic tips… No, really, after 15 years of making, using, and teaching bow drill I have not tired of it’s awesome simple magic. Lighting a fire from pieces of wood you carved yourself is a truly remarkable experience for anyone who is conscious and...
by Brad Salon | Feb 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Over the years I have worked to start incorporating more stone tool use into my skills projects. This can be challenging and a little nerve wracking because some of the tools take days of hard work to make, and putting them to the test can certainly result in critical...
by Brad Salon | Feb 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
The question that a lot of people always want to ask but don’t when it comes to trailing: Is this real? Can a you or I really learn to follow a trail, track by track, without the aid of sand or snow or mud? It is common in myths, books, and movies to see...
by Brad Salon | Feb 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Roots intern Gifford Walsh, 19, of Shrewsbury, Vt. is camouflaged using mud, clay, sand and dirt as part of a demonstration on tracking animals through the woods Thursday, May 28, 2009 during the Roots School core skills I wilderness survival course in East Calais,...
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