I Don’t Get It
This is raw. It’s unfiltered. It’s messy. It has bad words. I wrote this in the middle of feeling it, and I’m not cleaning it up. Read at your own risk. I live in a van full-time with my dog,…
Sam
Bushcraft Business Log — 6/15
Bow Drill Kit pt 1—Material Selection
Women’s Bushcraft & Canoe: Podcast with Tim Smith
Sam and Tim Smith, the founder of Jack Mountain Bushcraft School, discuss Sam’s experience at the XI Expedition Instructor course, and introduce the upcoming Women’s Bushcraft and Canoe | 3-Week Immersion course that is new at Jack Mountain summer of…
Women’s Bushcraft and Canoe | 3-Week Immersion: Course Creation
I dream of a community where people are not reliant on escaping through their handheld devices and modern technology, but rather find entertainment in watching the birds and crafting useful items out of natural materials. Where instead of pulling out…
Six Months in the Northern Maine Woods: The Social Side
I come from a small, liberal hippie town in southern Oregon where we drink maté and meditate in circles and everyone attends the local ecstatic dances. Then I moved to Boulder Colorado where I found a lot more of the…
Exhausted to Energized: The Unexpected Food That Restored my Vitality
Reclaiming my Health I was consistently pushing my body to do hard things during my time at Jack Mountain Bushcraft School. I had bare feet in the dirt daily, I had constant fresh air in my lungs and delicious clean…
Six Months in the Northern Maine Woods: Becoming Unphasable
The six months I spent in the woods of northern Maine at Jack Mountain Bushcraft School, were immensely transformative—not only in terms of learning practical wilderness skills but also in terms of the emotional growth that occurred for me. Before…