Now that I’m here in Alaska, I need to learn which plants I want to forage during the different times of the year. For this trip, I focused my search on fiddlehead ferns, fireweed, spruce tips, and alder leaves. There’s plenty of options here–both in...
This was one of those days where I didn’t have a plan, but needed to get outside…so I did. What I thought would be a short drive turned into a long one as there seemed to be something new and interesting around ever turn in the road. I ended the day with...
In this Adventure Ryan video, I spend the day hiking a river valley and getting in some practice with the bow drill. Alaska is finally starting to thaw out a little (this was filmed in early May), and while there is still snow in the higher elevations, places like...
It’s been cold lately here in Alaska, and the frost been forming in layers over everything as the night days get shorter, but it’s always feels good to get out and spend some time in the light. In this video, I set out to explore the quiet frozen landscape...
In my last video, I managed to forage a good variety of edible plants from the desert. In this video, I bring them home to the kitchen and make them into a meal. I’ll include some details on the process that I used, but this is far from the only way to prepare...
Spring in the desert has made foraging for edible plants a lot easier. Sudden lightning storms, however, have a way of slowing the process down. I couldn’t have asked for a better day after having been stuck indoors for longer than I like. I had set out with the...
