From Comfort to Courage, My Time in the Wilderness Before I set foot on the ranch this summer, my life was structured and familiar. I was studying Hotel Management in Switzerland, living with two of my best friends during the week, … Read More
Learning how to empower myself and others I travelled all the way from Ireland, kick starting my journey by completing the two-week wilderness mentor guide program. As a recent university graduate and not having a clue what direction I wanted … Read More
Becoming More than a Guide, Becoming Remarkable When I was eighteen years old, I decided to go to Wilderness Trails to do the guide school. I had just seen a movie about a group of friends going into the wilderness … Read More
Collecting Grizzly Hair for DNA Analysis Riding along the trail, suddenly we stop at a tree that to the untrained eye looks like any other. But when you take a closer look, you can see what we are collecting – … Read More
About Making Bread and Using the Chainsaw Ever since we defined self-sufficiency as one of our principles, I am gaining more awareness of what that means. Every day, I strive to become more self-sufficient and the best way to be … Read More
A Story About Wilderness Trails’ Guide School https://www.trails-to-empowerment.org/our-community/Coming from a big city in the heart of Germany I’ve never really experienced the wilderness yet alone lived in it and by its rules or rode a horse. So before arriving at … Read More
Horse Pack Trip – 20 Years later a dream come true I’ve wanted to go on a horse pack trip since I was a teen. My dad had heard of Wilderness Trails somewhere and written away to get a copy … Read More
Why I Chose the Ranch for my Practicum For someone who studies International Business Management, the Ranch might appear as an odd choice to intern with. Working in an area seemingly unrelated to my studies in a remote, wilderness setting … Read More
Learning with Freedom At Wilderness Trails, we use our remote wilderness setting as a vehicle for guest trips and training programs. This environment facilitates learning with a feeling of freedom. By focusing on methods that allow individuals to improve performance, … Read More
Accounts, Websites and the Self-Sufficient Lifestyle Growing and harvesting our own food, maintaining our own gravity fed water system and getting our own firewood are just some of the ways we are self-sufficient. Our in-house accounting and maintaining websites are … Read More