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Afternoon Tom Kat, Piper, Aleister, v-rus, Number3Pencils, and Jim!
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Allo! Iām Ryan, 22 and Iām going back to the woods!
Iāve had it about up to here ^ with politics, police, consermerism and a brainwashed society, so Iām going to bug out until the social climate is better. I would have bolted a long time ago, but itās nice to be near family.
In any case, Iām building up my knowledge and experience through learning and doing and scouting places to squat nomadically. I spent some time traveling in West Central Mexico with just me hammock, a shoulder bag and a camera. Seafood is plentiful if you know what youāre looking for and the climate makes it hospitable for open air camping most of the year, similar to Hawaii.
Iām a raw omnivore, if it can be eaten, I eat it raw!
Iām strongly looking at heading out west to squat on some BLM land and looking for any interested souls looking to do the same.
Glad to be here and hope to contribute my share!
Ryan
Aloha wild peoples and mahalo for creating this unique forum. I have enjoyed reading your thoughts on rewilding as a guest and have finally decided to join to share some myself.
I guess looking back now, my experience with anarcho-primitivism and rewilding began years ago when I liberated Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond from a chain bookstore. The book fundamentally changed the way I understood history and the culture I was participating in. I had a few years in college to put some other good books in my pipe and smoke emā and I learned one thing over and over. I do not want to participate in this system of exploitation and domination. I do not want to be a specialist, a consumer, a number, an accomplice in this systematic violence. What I didnāt know at the time was that I am capable of freeing myself of this civil tyranny.
At the time, I was living on a concrete river in downtown Atlanta pretty much cut off from all natural life, destitute and living in total ignorance that there may be another way to live. Then I got lucky and a friend of mine invited me to explore Hawaii with a free buddy pass she was gifted. I had no money but I also had nothing to lose. I borrowed a backpack, traded my few possessions for some basic camping equipment and flew to Kauai with 200 bucks to my name. This continues to be the best decision I have made in my entire life.
Which brings me to the purpose of my post. I have a secret of sorts and a challenge to share that only a forum like this could fully appreciate. You see most Islands in the world as you can imagine have a road that goes all the way around itā¦ not on Kauai, Hawaii. The entire west coast of that island is a rugged, wet wilderness area called the Na Pali, āthe cliffsā, that no engineer will EVER be able to design a road to access. The only individuals who can access the coast must be exceedingly brave. But, if you hitch a ride from the airport and head north, yes you can still hitch hike in Hawaii, make your way all the way to the end of the road. Keep going all the way until the pavement ends and you get to beautiful Keāe beach. There you will discover a trail head unlike any you have ever been on before. I should note that I did not go to Hawaii to hike this trail. Rather, a man named Puao who gave me a ride the first day I arrived told me to go there. In fact, after sharing life stories and picking up some supplies he took me directly to the trail head and told me to not stop walking until I arrived. I asked him āarrive where?ā He told me that this was the path I had been looking for, the path out of Babylon. They call this ancient path the Kalalau Trail. It is the only way to reach the wild heart of the Na Pali. Now I am not going to lie to you, this ātrailā is not much more than a goat path winding through jungle and around steep 1000ā bluffs. This trail is not to be taken lightly and people die every year trying to traverse it. Puao did not tell me this of course. But, if you stick it out all 11 miles, if you focus on putting one foot in front of the other and donāt look down, never look down, you will have found something that few others will ever experience, the Kalalau Valley. The valleyās physical beauty is well beyond my ability to describe and is only matched by its profound spiritual holdings. It is the land of the menehune, the ancient peoples of Kauai and is protected by their energy to this day I swear it. Their sacred hieaus and stone ruins litter the valley floor and are a constant reminder to be respectful.
For the past 30+ years only the most well grounded and respectful healers of nature have called this wild land their home. They created something all those years ago that still bears its gifts for every visitor. They planted seedsā¦ guava trees by the thousands, banana groves, mango trees that two people canāt put their arms around, papayas, lemons, limes, oranges, noni fruit trees 30ā high, star fruit, passion fruit, egg fruit(rare), pineapple, java plum, coffee plants, taro, tobacco, ganja, squashes, flowers of unparalleled beauty and herb gardens are all there for the gathering. Goats, and pigs and fat ground dwelling birds called erkels, also call this coast their home, the rivers are full of huge prawn and the ocean with all its bounty there for the eating. Simply put, the Kalalau valley is a massively overgrown food forest and home to some of the more interesting modern hunter gatherers/anti-civ holdouts I have ever encountered. A hot spot of rewilding activities, Polynesian style. There is no electricity, no cell phone service, not a clock or a gas station for 20 miles; only the raw power of 4000ā mountains, pounding ocean swell and colorful peoples from everywhere living pono aina.
I walked in there with 5 days worth of food. 5 weeks later I walked out not knowing even what day of the week it was completely and forever changed by the people and the spirits I met and came to love in there.
This was a few years ago and I no longer live on Kauai, but now after all this time I have only recently discovered the rewilding movement and I am absolutely crushing books by Quinn, Zerzan, Watson, Jensen and I am so inspired by you peoples on here, you Urban and Penny and Willem. You all have inspired me again to rewild in Kalalau. We are not alone, we will succeed, we are human beings goddamn it and our lives have value! I am so humbled to be part of this effort to return to the mystery, to the wildness of a real human existence. I am in Asheville today, but I am ready to be an āoutlawā in the Kalalau tomorrow! Who is coming with me!
welcome!
i am in asheville too. trying to get people together here to rewild with. weād love to share some time with you.
Righteous! Asheville is the Eugene of the east coast apparently and I would love to meet up with the wild Ashevillains. When I found the wildroots website I about crapped my pants I was so impressed. I wish I could have made it to the firefly gathering, but I was out of town. Are you active at wildroots? What are they all up to this summer? Hunting season is almost upon us and I am wondering if there are any fellow bow hunters that are interested in having some multi-day tracking/hunting expeditions into the Pisgah . I am currently in Jackson county but will be moving closer to Asheville in a few weeks.
KalalauKind, Thank you for sharing this. It could not have come at a more opportune time. Iām going to take up your challenge no later than November. Do I understand the last line of your post to say that youāre going back there soon?
I canāt thank you enough for sharing this secret.
Ryan
i know some people from wildroots and i ātaughtā workshops at firefly, but i am relatively new to the area so i am still meeting people. i hope to visit there again next week.
i donāt have my license here yet or a bow but i am more than up for tracking/scouting for hunts. i will be focusing on simple traps in the next few weeks.
pm me and we can get together.
Afternoon, Ryan and KalauKind! Welcome!
Iām new and, at this point, am pretty much living within the script of our cultural norm. But it doesnāt make me happy. Tired of living so non-sustainably but am caught in the script!
Welcome Ryan, KalalauKind, and Audri!
Audri, I like the image of a āscriptā that you used. Earlier this week I was thinking of our culture as one of those ābug boardsā where all the bugs are pinned down, and how rewilding is kind of like jumping off of one of the pins. Maybe you can visualize writing/acting yourself out of the script? 
Hello from RI, for all you new people!
Howdy All: My name is Terri, and I have been into foraging forever, and herbal stuff. No real structured training, alot self taught (which I have survived) and am extending out more to like-minded communities as I am learning this is a tribal thing, not just lone-wolfing it as I have before.
While āre-wildingā is something I canāt do 24/7 (I stay pretty busy as a paramedic), I do find getting out in nature the best medicine there is. Gonna do it till I am pushing up daisies.
I will offer what I can from my experience, and look forward to learning more! The word āscamperā has been a favorite word for me lately, evoking the fun and passion I find in being outdoors. I am fifty, I am saying that cuz this aināt only for the young, but young at heart. Age doesnāt have to slow you down:) Scamper on!
Welcome Terri!
Hi, Iām Dylan, 22yrs
Born and raised in New Zealand.
I grew up in the country side farming cows and sheep etc, by father was always an anti-capitalist and moved there just to āsurviveāā¦ which doesnāt really work with rising rates etc and ended up having to move to the city to work in an industrial job.
I loved the country side, I used to go out by myself for days on end during holidays, taught myself how to catch eels, make spears and sneak up on ducks and catch them.
Schools attempt at brainwashing me failed and I left school at the ripe old age of 16.
Unfortunately thanks to my folks new burden of living in the city it was soon burned into my head that i have to work at a job to get payed and work my way up to get wage increases.
I realised what it is that I miss and Iām now reading as much as I can about rewilding, hunting, trapping, plant life and survival.
Me and a few buddies in the US plan on getting together and rewilding together in the following year !
The Naked into the Wilderness book I mentioned is fuly titled Naked into the Wilderness: Outdoor Living & Outdoor Survival Skills. Itās by Geri and John McPherson. I got it a couple weeks ago, and itās pretty good. It could definitely stand a stiff round of proofreading and clarity editing; itās really a basement-press sort of deal, but itās become very popular despite that, just because it offers something that few other books can offer - advice on how to live outside from people whoāve done it, not just read about accounts of the precolumbian Native Americans. I havenāt read all the way through it yet, but what I have read already looks very solid. I also havenāt done much practice, but I will not leave my wilderness skills in the lurch of the theoretical. Perhaps as soon as this weekend, Iām going to take a trip out into the nearest woods (three miles away from this Iowa town - sad isnāt it? And the nearest intact prairie is something like fourteen miles away and only exists because my college runs it), and look around for some edible plants using the Peterson Field Guid to edible wild plants. And maybe practice making traps. And maybe some of whatever else comes to mind.
Hi all! My nameās Jessica, and Iām a former Seattleite moving to the Canadian Gulf Islands. Iāve only recently ever heard about ārewildingā (a great term BTW), but for my entire adult life Iāve been fundamentally dissatisfied with our modern culture (civilization). From reading Derrick Jensen and stuff about rewilding, Iāve realized that my dissatisfaction is from being domesticated and cut off from the Earth, other people/community (real relationships), and a natural way of life in general.
Iād always wondered why I was fundamentally unhappy/depressed with my life, and while Iāve long harbored strong criticisms of our society (Iāve been a revolutionary for some years now), Iād never really put two and two together, realizing that itās not ME with the problem, but the collective illusion that people call reality that surrounds me (civilization).
This has been HUGE for me - I feel like I finally understand why I feel the way I do, and what is wrong with the (human) world around me. But this is new, so Iām still trying to figure out just what I need to DO with this new-found realization! 
Hopefully the community here will help guide me in that respect. Iām looking forward to getting to know all of you.
Jessica
Hey welcome all ! see you in the threads!
alan, otherwise know as tn_junk.
just retired. 30 Years of high pressure BS.
raised in the Florida swamps. lived most of the last 40 years
in middle tn.
hunted, fished, tramped the woods all my life
knife maker, bowmaker, blackpowder afficionado
wood carver
my health sucks, mentally and physically.
headed out late september for a one year journey,
going to either reclaim myself or lose myself
either one donāt matter, just as long as
something changes
alan
Welcome!