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Lynx Vilden is the main instructor at Four Seasons Prehistoric Projects. She has traveled, explored, and researched the nature and traditional cultures of arctic, mountain, and desert regions from Hudson Bay to the Red Sea. She emerged from her first sweat lodge ceremony in 1989 with the realization of the calling back to the Earth, learning, sharing, and teaching the old ways. She has been practicing and teaching primitive living skills with passion both in the US and in Europe since 1991. Notably, she was head instructor at Boulder Outdoor Survival School in Utah and has taught workshops at primitive skills gatherings, including Rabbitstick and Winter Count. She's contributed regularly to the American publication Bulletin of Primitive Technology. She's lived in a Sami village in Scandinavia and has lived and studied in the desert Southwest of Arizona and New Mexico, the Rocky Mountains of Montana, and the North Cascades of Washington.
In 2001 she started the Four Seasons Prehistoric Projects program dedicated to sharing the ancient skills of primitive living. Her goal is to form a group prepared to live for a full year in a Stone Age living experiment.
 

Rico complements Lynx's skills as her partner, both in life and at the school. He's lived his whole adult life in the mountains of New Mexico without running water or electricity and provides very valuable insights and experience on living simply. He has homesteaded in remote areas using draft horses for logging, farming, and transport. Because of his acute awareness of the environment, he is a good naturalist and wildlife tracker. He is a life-long mountaineer, back-country skier, and guide.
Lynx and Rico live beside a beautiful river in a hand-built yurt in the North Cascades of Washington State. With the aid of their horses and a few modern conveniences they embrace a simple existence.
 



Xavier has been studying wilderness living skills since 2004, beginning with year-long programs at both Wilderness Awareness School's Residential Program and Earthwalk Northwest's Primitive Living Skills Apprenticeship on the Pacific Coast. He then spent an additional year intensively studying tracking and mentoring both kids and adults as an apprentice at both Youth School and the Residential Program at Wilderness Awareness School. Deciding to go to the next level and really apply primitive skills to his life, he's been learning from Lynx and Rico since 2007. He's now lending a helping hand during programs at Four Seasons Prehistoric Projects and is keeping the website and blog updated, while living simply with his wife in a cabin at the edge of national forest.





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