On January 10, 2009 I became a certified Wilderness First Responder!
I took the 9 day NOLS/WMI class in Flagstaff, Arizona.
I recommend NOLS for any outdoor leadership training. In particular, the Wilderness Medicine Institute cirriculum. The instructors were nice, knowledgeable and taught well. I appreciated their focus and ability to keep things serious while doing exercises [...]
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Wilderness First Responder
Adventurer’s tool kit…
When packing it’s always useful to have items which can serve more than one function. Nobody wants to carry the kitchen sink if they don’t have to. The Tuff-Writer is a virtually indestructible pen, perfect for any hardcore adventurer. It writes in the rain, the bone chilling cold or blistering heat without missing a beat. [...]
TimeOut Chicago Primitive Skills - Urban Foraging article
This is a pretty exciting publicity article for the Primitive Skills Meetup group.
Born To Eat Wild
http://www.timeout.com/chicago/articles/restaurants-bars/54821/born-to-eat-wild
Off Grid Living
I “Stumbled Upon” (literally) this Les Stroud video, whom I have admired ever since I started watching Survivorman. Now to further reinforce Les’ idol-ship in my esteem, he has done what I have deep in my heart to do.
This video is an hour long, but worth watching every minute. No matter what your nature-living tolerance [...]
Survivorman vs. Man vs. Wild
I know this battle lurks out there. Each time the topic comes up among friends, it’s usually the same response. Survivorman kicks ass over Man Vs. Wild. I chose to put a short entry about it here, because I watched an episode (Zambia, SA) of MvW last night and I was totally UNimpressed.
