During the off season, I took the time to reflect on the past year and how NCSS can improve. I also took some time to improve my own...

The hilarious film “Don’t Look Up” delivers a symbolic message about society’s refusal to accept reality. While I highly recommend the...

NCSS had a fantastic group of students this last weekend at our first immersive 48 hour wilderness survival school of the season!...

Not everyone appreciates pooping in the woods and I have to admit, it is one of those things you can deal with when you have no other...

Hot tent camping has always intrigued me. The idea of having a miniature wood burning stove in the tent is appealing! The ability to be...

The property that NCSS resides on came with all kinds of interesting surprises. One of those happens to be a pile of telephone polls that...

I always wanted to get a fire started by rubbing sticks together. In my mind if you could get a friction fire started, you could survive...

Any time I spend more than about an hour in the woods, I start to feel a shift in my being. A calmness begins to wash over my nerves. I...