Trackers PDX Blog

"When you teach something, you really learn it." Such a cliché! Unfortunately, for many outdoor educators this becomes an excuse to avoid true immersion in a craft or skill.  I see a lot of survival or animal tracking courses without oversight of anyone with real experience, or better yet, creative gumption that dares to explore the world.  Too often teaching becomes, "look how much I know" when it really needs to be "I'm so passionately in love with the gorgeous nuances of this thing."…

New Programs Pirates, Swords and Cannons and #%@! May 19 - 20, OvernightPardon our Pirate French, but this course is so awesome we can't contain ourselves. Trackers teams up with PDXYar for safe hands-on training in pirate weaponry:…

Recently several awesome parents have cornered me requesting more long-term training classes. Yet there are many good teen mentoring programs out there. So we pondered. What do we do better than anyone else? We know in our heart of hearts it’s our Rangers Guild. While many places teach wilderness survival and tracking, Trackers possesses…

I have always pondered the clear dichotomy between our adult and youth programs. We have our Summer Camps (for kids) and Summer of Survival (for grown-ups). Understandably, each requires a different level…

It is healthy to genuinely express our emotions and feelings, especially for our children. Yet like anything else in history, extremes can often lead to dysfunction. So here's the short of it. Sometimes it's okay to ask our kids to *gasp* toughen up (place shocked and awkward silence here). And here's the reality: they may already be tough…