Share Your Adventures

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Share your stories of adventure, inspiration, learning, and misadventure! Visit http://rewildu.com/classes/ for unique educational opportunities in rewilding, wilderness skills, mindfulness, martial arts, primal fitness, homesteading, and more.

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hi everybody when I first started making videos for YouTube I really thought I was just going to encounter sort of an anonymous community I think of Lee and Maggie gives the first people who reached out let me know that there were real people on the other side watching these videos and since then I've met so many amazing people through not just through the comments but through letters that you've written to me through email and I'm blown away what an amazing group of people out there and thank you so much for for being part of this my last video how to become an adventurer people have sent me so many stories and put so many stories in the comments section about challenges and victories that they've met in their life then I thought it would be a great chance here to take advantage of using the comments section to share whole bunch of stories so what I'm asking is that any and all of you right in and share some stories that are going to make people laugh that will inspire people that just celebrate your your personal strength or your personal weaknesses or show us things that you've you've learned in your life stories they come out of that adventurous spirit please write in share your adventures and your misadventures and I would also encourage people to comment on the comments it's really fun people start to share and let's just see what happens fun experiment

I'll start things off by sharing a story of my own here at the rewilding training grounds this is also a multi-generational community and a working organic farm and last year they purchased some heritage pigs that were meant to go out to pasture and these pigs supposedly were really used to electric fences well they put them out to pasture for the first time and the girl pig hit the fence and went crazy and she busted through that fence hit the chicken tractor went in one side past all the startled chickens out the other side through a barbed wire fence an old barbed wire fence up along pasture out through another Oh barb wire fence and out into the woods so the first I hear about this is about a half hour later they have tried to track down and find this pig and so they call me up to go find or get this pig right and now keep in mind that this is 275 pound pig and if I'm soaking wet I'm lucky to tip the scales at 140 and so I'm thinking hmm you guys have a lot more confidence in me than I do but yep so I grabbed this climbing rope and as I'm jogging out there i fashioned it into a lasso it's a super windy day the trees are shaking branches are falling and I track the pig for about a half hour and suddenly there she is through the woods and it's so windy that I'm thinking like I'm gonna be able to come up behind her and throw this lasso over her head and get her right some creeping closer and creeping closer Yeah right about 15 feet away and she looks back and sees me she gets all where he starts circling around luckily she doesn't run but she's circling around watching me like well am I gonna do now so there's this path coming through here in the street I think well I'll set a rabbit snare right a pig snare so I i make my snare and i stand back at the end of the rope and try to lead her around to it sure enough she goes right through it i yank it get her around the waist had this moment of feeling whoa victory and then i'm flying through the air right all little 140 pounds of he flying through the air hope you i'm not going to crash into a tree as she's riding through the woods I think instincts take over then so I rolled it aside and get it around this tree wrap it up and she comes to a screaming stop screaming like a orc in the woods just oh my gosh it's terrible noise so now I'm alone in the woods with this 275 pound screaming pig what am I gonna do now so I end up making sure she's really secure I go back and get a bunch of the other people from the farm my co-teacher Mike fashions is awesome sling and we call out the vet and the vet comes and she is this like five foot two super cute looks like she's 19 years old all in really nice clothes and cosmetics and we're thinking really and she's not afraid at all she wades right in there right and and administers the injection the sedative and we wait about 15 minutes and pig lays down on her side we start to move her onto the stretcher and she just dog comes into full consciousness again this happens about four times it's getting dark and she keeps waiting in there giving another shot she says she gave that pig more sedative than she would give to a horse and finally finally she's sedated enough that we can take her down through the woods picking our way in the dark down to this nearby road get her into the back of this pickup we all pile on top to make sure that she's not going to get up during the ride and the guy books home and just as we're pulling in to the pasture she starts waking up again as soon as she sees her boyfriend though she gets all nice and mellow goes over to him the rubbing noses and so it was sort of nick of time and the story ended well she made it back that is the story of how I caught a 275 pound pig in the woods and in truth it was sheer luck so please write in share your adventures and misadventures and I can't wait to hear