Anime and Bacon22ndJanuary
My wife (Molly) plays an online Multi-User Dungeon (MUDD for short). Jason, our Wilderness Immersion director, got teary eyed during the final episode of the new Battlestar Galactica (and twice during Avatar). Casey, our Jungle-Marine Immersion Director used to frequent SCA tournaments. June and David, two our founding community members, can go on and on about the latest Joss Whedon series. And Gabe plays soccer (very, very well).
What's the connection? Well none of us were starters on the high school sports team (well, maybe Gabe, but soccer doesn't count). If wilderness schools were 5th grade, Trackers would be the kids in the basement during recess rolling 20 sided die (with the occasional emo goth hanging out).
What does all this have to do with Nature? I could wax profound about how story and myth helps us retell and remake a planet of people with greater purpose and connection to the village.. but really? No, we're nerds. And somehow I suspect that's all anyone needs to know before deciding if they're a good match for Trackers.
We're not a push survival school. Nor a guru cult. We're more fanboy than hippie. Yet we're fanboys and girls with some pretty awesome skills. If you come to Trackers, on more then a few occasions, you may be stuck watching anime, playing Lord of the Rings Risk or regaling over the wonders of homemade bacon. You've been frakkin' warned. Live long and prosper.
New Nerdy TrackersTEAMS Website We said to our web designer, give us a Hobbit hole. He did. Check out our new TrackersTEAMS website.
Jungle Marine Immersion Program And while you're at TrackersTEAMS, check out our new full-time residential jungle and marine skills immersion program. This is where you start off taking our 49 foot sailboat from the San Francisco bay to Manzanita, Oregon. Then your travel to Costa Rica, living there, taking a permaculture design certification course, studying jungle bushcraft and plant medicines, getting your Wilderness First Responder, training tracking, building a 30-foot umiak, sailing that same boat on expeditions in a tropical bay and living on one of the most beautiful Costa Rican beaches in a village of fellow Trackers students and instructors for 9-months. Learn more about our Jungle Marine Immersion Program
Check out the nerdiness of our Jason Craban, Wilderness Immersion Program Director…
-His YouTube bio -His website with his craft work, LaughingCrowe.com
