The idea of risk plays a big role in the outdoor industry. Liability insurance is an important consideration for any professional guiding company or wilderness education program, but that’s not what this post is about. Instead, it’s about who bears the financial risk if someone chooses to leave a course or trip because of injury, [...]
From The Archives, 2003 photo. Here’s a birch bark lean-to made near our old home base in New Hampshire. #FullTangLifestyle #AroostookCounty
We wrapped up the spring semester a week ago, and started the Advanced Whitewater Canoe Course strongly with a great day on a local rapid and lake going over skills and maneuvers with both pole and paddle. On Tuesday we headed into the woods, to camp at Churchill Dam on the Allagash. After setting up [...]
With gas prices being so high, I’m thinking about one of these for my next vehicle. #FullTangLifestyle #AroostookCounty
The spring, 2026 Wilderness Bushcraft Semester, our 68th long-term program, is complete. Yesterday we gathered together for a send-off dinner, shook hands and said I’ll see you when I see you. I never grow tired of watching people of different ages, from different walks of life, from different places coming together and forming into a [...]
Time flies during the Wilderness Bushcraft Semester, and here we are at the end of semester number 68. Oz and I gathered around the old microphone to discuss the JMBS Digital Archives Project, the challenges of the spring semester (this semester in particular), how we’re running 3 semester courses this year, and a few other [...]
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