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Breath of a Wolf’s Trail
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Everything we touch, breathe, eat, absorb and interact with directly affects us. Every muscle fiber, fascia layer, blood cell and molecule in our bodies is one with all life. Many people do not stop to think about this. We are sponges and our environment helps create our bodies and minds. With...
I wrote this years ago in conjunction with one of my wilderness courses. Thought I would share here.
Over the years of teaching outdoor skills people have been concerned about all manner of outdoor challenges they might have to face.
Making fire
finding and purifying water
making a suitable...
Every person has the potential for perfect health, in a perfect world under idealistic situations. These are rarely found on earth, and instead of idealistic conditions, we dwell on an ever increasing hostile planet driven by the indiscriminate ‘forward progresses of the industrialized human...
Below you will find two lists of more well known herbs and essential oils, one for antibacterial and one for antiviral.
These lists are basic and only list a very few of the many herbs around the world, The ones listed below, however, are pretty common and easy to obtain.
I have leaned toward...
This won’t be a particularly long story. Due the nature of this event, I’m unable to disclose the location, names, exact dates and other “sensitive” information. I will, however, layout some pertinent points from my personal experience in this involvement.
I posted a few stories where I had...
This is a true story of a wilderness trek I did many years ago. I was hiking deep in the Rocky Mountains of northern New Mexico. I was out for a few weeks in late summer. Now normally when folks here “New Mexico” they think dry, arid, windswept and so on. At one time I was much the same in...
These articles are simply about the energies of each moon of the year. I wrote and published all of these in a long article years ago. Today I’m going to share them here , one-by-one, each month. These teachings/philosophies are from my Native American mentor who guided me through my...
My plan is to post one short article per month on Moons until the years end. The January Moon is the simplest of them all, so the below is short and sweet. Of course it is now February, so I will post both January and February here one after the other.
These articles are simply about the...
When my Lungs were Strong-
When I was in SF and Spec ops training, decades ago, underwater was an experience both technical and all consuming. I will keep this as basic as possible, and so will try to minimize the technicalities.
Keep in mind that I took Lifeguard Training and was certified...
This is a true story that I decided to post following my Dress Right For Winter blog. article.
Many years ago I found myself hiking in the autumn outside of World’s End State park in Pennsylvania. It was one of my favorite regions of the state, and held one of my most favorite trails in...
I wrote and published this through my wilderness survival school in 2014. I thought I would repost it here in that some of you might get something out of it.
It was asked of me over the summer to perhaps host a class on how to properly dress for winter weather. Well maybe one of these days I...
Just for fun:
In years past, each winter I would build with ice in my backyard or on the large back deck. This winter is the first exception since my health plummeted last year.
Nevertheless, I would start using the frigid north temps to make ice in various molds, and continue so long as the...
A big wonder in the modern world of medicine is why one medicine works for someone with a condition, but not for another person with the same condition. Science goes into great depth and expends jaw dropping amounts of money to figure questions like this out. It works with all sorts of...
Let me talk a bit about Chaga. (Inonotus obliquus)
If you have not read my story about the first time I was introduced to chaga, you might want to take a peek. Grandmother Birch Medicine - my 1st meeting
The following is based upon cold science, as opposed to the previous article...
Years ago when I was studying plants of the northern regions of the world with fresh, new eyes, I was introduced to a fungus called Chaga. For most of my life I have lived in the north and cold climates of the world and so have been in the ecosystems where Chaga lives. In my youth I must have...
I'm not doing so well today, but thought I would make the effort to post something new. Luckily I had written this some years ago, so was able to make a few edits and then copy and paste it here.
Today in modern times of “civilized” societies, many people have returned to using herbs as...
Another post in my Breath on a Wolf's Trail blog for you all:
This is a true story:
The year was 1994 and the season was early summer. Location, the foothills of central Colorado along the South Mesa Trail.
It was a sunny, cloudless Colorado sky during a weekday. I decided I wasn’t working...
Due to a number of inquiries, privately, I decided to oblige and create this short and matter of fact post. Others on this forum might also have a interest in as far as it possibly relates to ME/CFS.
This is not posted to gain sympathy, or pity in any form. I decided to post this because I...
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We finished eating and I was fairly disgusted with Mac and Jenny at that point. They had spent about 20 minutes talking down Libby and how she should have never been with us and what was she thinking feeling she could climb the...
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Right around 45 minutes later we could hear a distant sound of a chopper coming up from the south. The winds were the same except for the gusts of around 30 mile per hour that had started accompanying the steady wind. That certainly would not be helping anything...