MICK DODGE at Tahoe Expedition Academy

Students at Tahoe Expedition Academy experience the teaching Mick received from the forest (which lead to the Nat Geo TV show, The Legend of Mick Dodge). Mike Hatchett of Standard Films captured the action.

[@kylelang1815]

Mick Dodge you are a great sage keep up the good work youch👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@justdawndb]

what a wonderful thing you are doing Mick. Thank you!

[@starrdowning2554]

love ya mick and jacquie as well.

[@sessary]

Glad to see he's teaching kids. Those that grew up with "screens" have little to no connection with plain old dirt... water, earth, rock, and fire.
Shoes insulate their feet from that direct connection, that melding with earth, water, and rock. I tried to pass that on, too, in a summer camp I ran for eight years.
I'm afraid my generation (I'm 70) is the last generation able to walk into the wilderness without an umbilical cord attached to cities and "all knowledge"...
I'm afraid we are the last to have experienced the absence of that leech-like attachment, that infant-like dependence, that deathgrip that modern man has on "civilization".
Without the internet, satellite phones, cell phones, emergency beacons and the like -- and not knowing any different back then -- we prepared, hoisted our packs, and walked for hours, for days, for weeks... away from all that man had constructed.
We had to be self-reliant. We had to be confident in ourselves... We had to be resilient and resourceful... There was absolutely nothing and no one we could call in to help us in emergency.
But that was part of why we went... to cut that tether and float free. And there, in the wilderness, we never smiled so broadly, laughed so hard, handled the worst of our fears, or experienced such awe and wonder.
You cannot be thoroughly bathed in nature with one foot stuck out of the shower...

[@karnesrussell]

Yes Uncle, I hear you. Get after it.

[@dalejurek7506]

My friend Dale was following you until he was struck down with Guillain Barre. Healing is possible...I am seeking ways to speed his healing. 3 months paralyzed & still on ventilator. 😕

[@cunucudebelg2778]

Yosh, friend !

[@texasswamp17]

cringe