Growing up on the gulf in Hitchcock, Texas, Cal spent his youth learning primitive skills that would enable him to bring home food to the table. He spent huge amounts of time immersed in nature which naturally led to mastery in many types of primitive skills.
He is a self-taught primitive archer, capable of making a complete archery outfit from materials directly from the landscape. He has taught many earth-based living skills to youth and adults including self-bow making, flint knapping, basketry, hide tanning, primitive cooking, traps, wild edibles and awareness skills, to name a few.
His proudest achievement is when he harvested a deer in 1997 with all home-made materials including an osage bow and a cane shafted flint tipped arrow he flint-knapped and fashioned himself.
As a student, Cal has taken numerous classes from the Tracker School in New Jersey and has been a presenter at Mid Atlantic Primitive Skills Gatherings (MAPS Meet). He enjoys traveling yearly to South Africa to traverse the landscape, checking out the knapping ability of the rocks as he explores wood types for bow making and fire by friction.. He strives to have command of all skills necessary to live purely in nature with no fabricated resources.
Cal loves being in nature and gives freely of his time to any youth and adults interested in strengthening their connections to the Earth. He currently divides most of his time between West Virginia and Ohio where he leads our Bushcraft programs in the United States.
