#CURING A HIIDE HOW TO#
There I would learn how to cast the spells of hide tanning. I signed up to live and learn from Red for two weeks down in his house outside of Austin Texas. At a primitive skills gathering I had met a master hide tanner, Red Louvish. One of the first skills I really invested in was my long lost desire to learn how to tan deer skins. I had finally found space in my life to pursue the skills that interested me. Finally I had found a life in the wild and mentoring young adults in wilderness skills. school was not for me, and yet I am so grateful that it provided the push for me to go after what I truly wanted.įast forward a year, I had found a job as a wilderness therapy field guide in Utah, and was loving my life. It was the first thing I had ever quit in my life. Quitting terrified me, and at times I doubted it was the right choice. I made the choice to move toward what I had always wanted to do but was too afraid to do: live a wild life. I was forced to kill and sterilize and tame the wild things I loved so much.Īfter one semester of Graduate school, I quit (read how I transformed in this post). What had seemed like a good idea at the time, investing in my education, getting another degree in Biology, actualized as me sitting inside a lab most days underneath florescent lights, neglecting my body, and my true heart’s desires.Īfter collecting a species of jumping spiders across the country, I kept them alive for months, fed them, named them, and eventually had to kill them, crush them up, and add acids and chemicals to extract their DNA. Overall thought it felt like a failure at the time.Īnd graduate school didn’t go well for me either. The hide was stiff and hard, and it was basically rawhide, which was better than nothing. I wanted to transform the hide into something soft and magical but I didn’t know how to cast the spell. I googled some tanning basics and gave it a shot.
#CURING A HIIDE SKIN#
Hundreds of hunters, yet not one of them knew how to do anything with the skin of their kill. With my freshly bloodstained trunk and hands, I started asking around for anyone who might have an idea how to tan it. I remember stuffing a roadkill deer into the trunk of my tiny Saturn sedan after one of my graduate level Biology classes.
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