Material Culture Of Origins Program

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...

Winter Tracking I

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...

Flint Knapping – Spalling

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...

Avoid Dying in the Cold, Be Comfortably Cool

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...