What would it be like to use a flowing river as a trail? In some areas of the American Southwest, a walk in and out of a flowing stream with wettable shoes is often easier than navigation on the river bank. That’s why wettable shoe hiking, or river hiking, is a common method of backcountry …
If you live in the Pacific Northwest and struggle with fern identification, you aren’t alone. The PNW has a lot of ferns. They are moisture-loving plants, and, well, we have a lot of moisture here. One of my first videos was all about IDing fiddleheads, but after the video came out, it became apparent that …
I just finished reading Ben Hewitt’s Book, Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the beaten path, unschooling, and reconnecting with the natural world. I’ll say right off the bat that it was one of the best books I’ve read in a while. Hewitt writes with enough eloquence that I could have read it in one …
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