Spring Snow Trip
Just before Thanksgiving 2016 I drove up to the Cascades to experience the first real snow of the season. I[…]
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Spoon Carving
I’ve never been happy with any of the spoons I’ve carved. They lack that certain grace of form. I think[…]
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I’ve only been to the Sonoran Desert a few times. However since I started my survival journey in the Mojave[…]
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I’ve reached that age where I’m watching friends and family lose freedom to age related infirmities. Over the past eight[…]
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In the Atlantic Codex are collected many of Leonardo da Vinci’s concepts and ideas, such as manned flight and parachutes. […]
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For the past 13 years I have made multiple trips every year over the pass on Oregon Highway 26. On[…]
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I’ve been interested in the aircraft of the First World War since I was a child. There is something appealing[…]
Read moreThe Single Most Important Survival Skill
Today marks one year since we paid off our 15 year mortgage in about 7 years. That milestone was the[…]
Read moreThe Year Long Day
The Year Long Day is the story of one year in Norwegian Ivar Ruud’s life. Ivar was at the time[…]
Read moreThe Gift of Fear
The author of Gift of Fear, Gavin de Becker learned threat assessment by growing up in a very unhappy home. […]
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