We’re into the thick of our summer programming, having finished up the spring semester and the Summer Woodsman course. Currently we’ve got four spots remaining for the fall 2021 Wilderness Bushcraft Semester. It’s going to be a great course this year, and I’m already looking forward to to the warm days and crisp nights of [...]
June 2021
On our final trip of the spring 2021 WGTS we caught a lot of fish. Unfortunately, the vast majority of those fish were chub. Creek chubs are a large member of the minnow family and have a tendency to get under the skin of anglers targeting brook trout in a lot of New England streams, [...]
End of the spring semester. Back from our final trip, the spring 2021 Wilderness Guide Training Semester is finished. In this episode of the podcast Christopher and I discuss two aspects of coaching people and how they differ. First is nurturing them to build their confidence, and second is focusing on accountability and what needs [...]
New for 2021, a 3-week introduction to bushcraft and canoe tripping, or the practical arts of life in the woods lived by hand, with no experience necessary or assumed. We’ll spend a week at the field school learning the skills of the forest and canoe, then spend two weeks canoeing the 99-mile Allagash Wilderness Waterway [...]
This is our 2000th post. Over the years I have found blogging, and more recently podcasting and video, to be a great way to communicate with our audience. It allows us to publish what we want when we want, without the gatekeepers that were the norm twenty years ago. Our initial blog was setup by [...]