Have you ever just wandered over a mountain to see what's on the other side? Have you heard the silence of the forest pounding on your ears like the beat of a drum? Does the sound of a distant crow or the haunting melody of a loon bring happiness to you heart?

Can you close you eyes and smell the smoke of an early morning campfire and see the sun rising over the high ragged ridge in the distance? Do you know the smell of Mother Earth in the humus of the forest floor beneath your feet, the scent of pines and sage after a rain?

Does your heart beat with excitement at the call of a coyote on a moonlit night. Have you bathed in the silver light of the full moon reflecting off the snow, the only sound that of your snowshoes as you move through the forest?

Do you know the feel of a tired body after a long day of trekking, the pure joy of relaxing by an evening fire, the warmth of a meager meal in your belly and the promise of a night's sleep wrapped in your blanket on a bed of leaves and pine boughs?

Do you know the drone of insects on a warm summer day, the soft flutter of brightly colored butterflies as they move from wild flower to wild flower sipping the nectar? Have you stood quiet and still watching an open meadow to see what might wander through and had a titmouse land on your shoulder thinking you were just a tree?

Has your blood surged at the bugle of a bull elk in the Fall or have you smelled the dusky scent of a nearby moose or elk? Have you stood watching a herd of whitetail or mule deer grazing on a hillside or an Antelope bounding gracefully at full speed across an open sage flat?

Have you watched from a hidden place, a bear busily tearing into a rotten log seeking a meal of grubs or insects or a sow playing with her cubs? Do you know the sound of music from a babbling brook or the sigh of the wind in the tree tops?

If you know these things or would like to come to know them, if you are not afraid to push yourself when you think you can't go on, and if your attitude is "It could be worse, it could be hot", when you find yourself wet and slogging through the mud, then you are a candidate for Historical Primitive Trekking and Long Hunting.

Come then and join us. Leave the hassles of the modern world and step back into history to a simpler time. Come taste the freedom, the joys, and the hardships of our forefathers.