throw back to the past 20th century-

  Buckeye also contained an interesting masculinity as well as equal femininity. But the more interesting being the masculine. There seemed to be this niche filled by actual (or mostly actual, maybe more modern version) of the mountain man, frontiers fur trader, trappers, and even stone aged living. 

  I remember those 1940's and 1950's nature and national parks documentaries that Disney used to re-run all the time when i was a kid. I used to think how cool that might have been to live like that. One of those childhood fantasies. Even Tom Brown Jr. the Tracker sat on my mothers book shelf, and i used to read her outdoor survival skills books she used to have as well. But where now does that man stand in this global modern world? what does James "Grizzly" Adams possibly do in 2012? What about the famed John Colter who was a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and thought to be the very first of European descent to make it into whats now Yellow Stone national park and see the Tetons? Where do they all fit into this culture that has sprung into these modern gatherings?

The 3,000+ men that used to run the Rockies, cascades, and wind river ranges, and the south west have long been dead and their profession killed by over trapping, cheaper Canadian furs, fashion trends gone south, and the quick expansion west. Many where forced south or north, and for the most part the profession and land which kept those wild men and woman dissipated into development. Nature was claimed by civilization. 

but...

who is the modern every man?

There was the Mountain Man at Buckeye. but what about the character? what about this ultimate frontiers persona that is creating a great modern puzzle? 

What if we could reclaim and protect and tend the wild to bring back a wilderness living and adventurer? 

It is possible.

Time and history don't have to exactly be linear.  It very well may be that the best relationship man had with him self and the earth might have already been in our past. 

 That man had understood his ways and means, and knew that greater respect and prayer for mother earth and her kin. 

The very philosophy that went with it has appeared now to me in the very place we once figured it was just long ago adventure stories in the wild frontiers of the west.

 What about the modern Masculinity/Femininity?

Does being empowered by your masculine or Feminine mean understanding why those men and woman adventured and longed for the wilderness? That they understood nature on the most full level,  respected and adored it.

My whole point here is the very fact that i suddenly appreciated the old ways and the skills, talents and artisans that lived this life and where we ultimately came from long long long ago. 

That even today seeing people live like this, and master these skills is a Honor. 

It showed how much 

 knowledge and harmony we once lived in thousands of years ago.

That humans once had everything they needed.

They understood their rolls in every fashion.

And lived naturally by every means necessary in a partnership. 

for some great reading-

 Tend The Wild

the bay area forager