This is the recommended gear list for our California Weekend Survival School. All items on the checklist below are important for an enjoyable and comfortable wilderness survival weekend experience. Tent, ground tarp, and sleeping pad. Rent a tent/pad, and a carving knife for camp Sleeping bag, pillow Eating utensils – cup for hot drinks, bowl, […]
Sign language – reading natures clues with Mark Wienert
REEDSPORT OR. — The tracks in the sand of a passing black bear and her two cubs disappear into a thatched tangle of forest beside Eel Lake. Oregon’s coastal rain forests are a jungle that swallows light and tracks alike — at least to the untrained eye. For expert tracker and wilderness survival teacher Mark Wienert, […]
Animal Tracking
Animal tracking in the simplest of terms is acknowledging and following a disturbance of interest on the landscape. Animal Tracking Animal tracking is where a tracker is able to glean specific information from a track, sign, or disturbance registered by animal or man on the landscape. For instance, a raccoon registers its prints in the […]
The Simple Thrills of Nature
The simple thrills of nature caught me as I was sitting quietly in the early light of an August morning. I was on the bank of a lake deep in the wilds of southeast Alaska. The musical chatter of Otter at play caught my interest. Otter is one of my favorite animals. The Simple Thrills […]