Veteran Faculty and Seasonal Staff

Bill Baroch

Roles/Work: M.S., Lead Instructor, Storyteller & Poet
Hometown(s): Deming, WA
Approximate Age: 50
Introduced to the Wolf College: 1999
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2000

Bill teaches using story as a technique for subtly sharing insight and information. He emphasizes stories which celebrate the natural world and human-nature interactions. From 1991-98, Bill was Co-Director & Instructor at Free Spirit Nature Camp in Warwick, NY, conducting six-week summertime camps for 4-12 year olds, presenting pre-camp staff orientation, acting as camp medical director, and planning/implementing activities focusing on nature study and exploration, survival skills and conflict resolution. Bill was also Program Director at Pathfinder Outdoor School in Mountain Center, CA from 1991-92 & 1993-94, administrating the residential outdoor education program, communicating with schools to set schedules, giving school site presentations to students and parents, developing/implementing new classes and programs, and teaching classes in natural science and other outdoor pursuits. Bill was also Teaching Fellow at Montclair State University’s N.J. School of Conservation in Branchville, NJ, from 1992-93, where he taught environmental education classes and developed teacher training workshops. From 1990-91, bill was a Naturalist Instructor at Greenkill Environmental Education Center in Huguenot, NY, where he designed and taught classes natural history to grades 410 during 3-5 day visits, using Project Adventure, High Ropes and the Climbing Wall to establish cooperative learning. Bill was also an Environmental Education Intern at Clemmie Gill School of Science and Conservation in Springville, CA from 1989-90, at Ryerson Conservation Area in Deerfield, IL , and at Northcoast Environmental Center in Arcata, CA in 1988. Bill was also a Docent at the Nature Conservancy’s Lanphere-Christensen Dunes Preserve in Arcata, CA from 1985-88, leading interpretive walks for school groups and the general public which focused on the geology and ecology of the dunes. He was a trail crew member for the U.S. Forest Service in Tongass National Forest,, Misty Fjords National Monument in Alaska in 1985, a Wildlife Technician for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks, AK in 1994, working on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, and again a Wildlife Technician for the U.S. Forest Service, Institute of Northern Forestry in Fairbanks in 1993, assisting a biologist on a moose foraging ecology study in Denali National Park.

Megan Damofle

Roles/Work: Lead Instructor, Herbalist
Hometown(s): Seattle, WA
Approximate Age: 25
Introduced to the Wolf College: 2006
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2008

Megan completed the bulk of her Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in 2006, and went on to finish studying herbalism, permaculture and other crafts before returning to complete her training and lead instruct Herbal Medicine and the Seaside Spa in the summer of 2008. Megan hails from Seattle, and her story of self-motivated work and study is inspiring to all, as she has already gained the respect we normally reserve for herbalists twice her age. She recently returned from a 6 month study trip to Peru, and we are looking forward to hearing all her stories at camp this summer!

 

Patrick “Tricky Coyote” Wiley

Roles/Work: Lead Instructor, Facilities Coordinator
Hometown(s): Eugene, OR
Approximate Age: 22
Introduced to Wolf Camp: 2004
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2008

Patrick first came to camp in 2004, and has since completed a majority of our summer courses, including the Ultimate Tracker. He completed our week-long Naturalist Mentoring CIT course in 2006, then our Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in the summer of 2007, and served as an assistant camp instructor in 2008, and became our youngest-ever lead instructor for a couple camps in 2009. Chris calls him his “mini-me, only twice as tall” as he is an outdoor generalist, but naturally gifted teacher (aka knows how to lovingly keep a group disciplined). He hails from Eugene, Oregon, and is attending the University of Oregon.

Charlie “Wise Eagle” Borrowman

 

Roles/Work: Lead Instructor
Hometown(s): Bay Area, CA
Current Residence: Seattle WA
Approximate Age: 21
Introduced to Wolf Camp: 2006
First Leadership Year at the Wolf College: 2009

Charlie first came to camp in 2006 after having attending Hawk Circle in Cherry Valley, NY, and has since completed most of our summer courses, including the Ultimate Tracker. He completed our week-long Naturalist Mentoring CIT course in 2007 and our summer-long Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in 2009. Charlie is the most amazing lead guitarist and he invented the name of our new Advanced Hobo Arts camp theme running in 2009, re-invented our Epic Fishing Camp in 2010 for which he is not our perennial lead instructor, and has co-taught most of our other camps including Wilderness Survival and the Stone Age Artisan. Charlie also graduated from the French Culinary School in San Jose, CA in 2011 and his skills as a chef have transformed our meals at Wolf Camp into gourmet fair. Charlie is currently developing our Backcountry Gourmet Cooking Class which will be launched in the spring of 2013.

Torrey Burke-Weeks

Roles/Work: Camp & Class Instructor
Hometown(s): Bellingham, WA
Approximate Age: 19
Introduced to Wolf Camp: 2001
First Leadership Year at the Wolf College: 2010

Torrey first came to a Bellingham day camp when he was a wee little 7 year old, and has been coming back ever since. Growing up without TV or video games, his entertainment and education has always come from nature and the outdoors. His interests include teaching, tracking, backcountry camping, woodworking, traditional survival skills, foraged food, blues/swing dance, and sustainability. After 10 years of Waldorf education and 4 years at Bellingham High School, he is now attending Quest University Canada.

 

Lorien MacAuley

Roles/Work: Lead Instructor
Hometown(s): Mannassas, VA and currently Oak Hill, WV
Approximate Age: 30
Introduced to the Wolf College: 2004
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2004

Lorien MacAuley, B.S. in Biology, graduated from our Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in the summer of 2004, and due to her expertise in wildlife tracking & birding, already was a lead day camp instructor in August of that year. She also lived at Wolf Camp as part of our Wolf Journey Ethno-Ecology Apprenticeship, helping to develop our organic gardens and farm animals while also studying earth skills to a great depth. Lorien lead several of our camps in 2005-06. She is Wilderness First Responder certified, and trained in Site/Risk Management. Lorien did environmental research in the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest during the summer of 2007. She is currently working at Southern Appalachian Labor School in West Virginia.

 

Scott Fanello

Roles/Work: Lead Instructor
Hometown(s): currently Boulder, CO
Approximate Age: 30
Introduced to the Wolf College: 2004
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2004

Scott Fanello, B.S. in Biology, graduated from our Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in the summer of 2004, and due to unprecedented experience, soon became a lead day camp instructor in August. He lived at Wolf Camp as part of our Wolf Journey Ethno-Ecology Apprenticeship, helping to develop our organic gardens and farm animals while also studying earth skills to a great depth. Scott lead several of our camps in 2005-06, including the development of the Old School Pioneers camp. He is Wilderness First Responder certified, and trained in Site/Risk Management. Scott just finished his masters in stormwater engineering and relocated to the mountain west where he works in the field.

Jason Patterson

Roles/Work: Lead Instructor, Artisan & Survival Specialist
Hometown(s): Woodinville, WA
Approximate Age: 40
Introduced to the Wolf College: 2004
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2005

Jason came to us with many years experience guiding wilderness therapy courses, and many years of dirt time with survival skills. He is co-teaching a variety of camps with us this summer, and has been a great help to our program since starting to work with us years ago. He is a great craftsman in the field of primitive skills, and has an amazing, calm, happy, humble and welcoming energy with young people. 

 

Chris “Huck” Anderson

Roles/Work: Lead Instructor, Assistant Director, Paramedic, Founder of Lost & Found Adventures
Hometown(s): Phoenix, AZ
Approximate Age: 30
Introduced to the Wolf College: 2005
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2006

Huck served as our camp nurse and graduated from our Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in 2005, when he also co-taught our Rock Climbing course and assisted with several day and overnight camps as well. In 2006 he ran the GeoTRIP, and he taught a variety of camps for us in 2007. He comes to us with a plethora of previous experience, including as an ambulance driver EMT (he is also a certified Wilderness EMT and also working on achieving his R.N.B.S.). He is a gifted musician, having played with many of the great jazz artists of our time who visited Arizona State University during his years there. Huck has now founded Lost & Found Adventures in Pheonix, AZ, and you can contact him by phone at 602-228-0211 to find out about attending one of his great courses or to arrange a custom-designed program. Huck is also on staff full time at Arizona Outback Adventures.

Carol Gulet
Roles/Work: Staff Advisor, Co-Founder of B.C. Primitive Adventures
Hometown(s): Vancouver
Approximate Age: 45
Introduced to the Wolf College: 1998
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 1998

Carol has extensive experience teaching in a variety of settings, and was co-founder of B.C. Primitive Adventures in 1996. She has worked as a counselor at Leyline for several years, and all the students who have attended Wolf Camp can attest to her fun, nurturing, and challenging leadership. She is a graduate of many Tracker School courses, including Advanced Scout, and has become a highly skilled herbalist, survivalist, and teacher.

Nikki van Schyndel
Roles/Work: Herbalist, Survivalist, Artist
Hometown(s): Alert Bay, B.C.
Approximate Age: 40
Introduced to the Wolf College: 1999
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2000

Nikki is a 1999 graduate of the Dominion Herbal College, illustrated Wolf Journey – Trail of the Naturalist, and recently authored an account of her 2 year primitive living experience in the western wilderness called Becoming Wild with our apprenticeship graduate Micah Fay, where they succeeded in reaching the “stone age living” level all of us in the field wish we could pull off. She was mentored in wildlife photography by William Gibbons, a great Rocky Mountain wildlife photographer. She has been a loved volunteer for Wolf Camp since 2000, and our most advanced student having progressed through the Wolf Journey course. Nikki is a natural teacher and excellent tracker, herbalist, artist and survivalist. It is an understatement to say that Nikki is now one of the most highly trained earth skills educators in the field. We don’t know of more than a couple other people who claim to have accomplished what she has, and we are more than proud to have her advising us. Nikki is currently running her own wilderness guide programs and selling her prime crafts off the northeast Vancouver Island coast near Port McNeill, B.C. Please see bcraincoast.com for all the details.

Kate Hedges

Roles/Work: Founder of Blue Skies
Hometown(s): Helensburgh and Edinburgh, Scotland
Approximate Age: 30
Introduced to the Wolf College: 2001
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2002

Kate Hedges was the first graduate of the our Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship. She came specifically to learn earth skills and to learn how a functioning earth skills school ran in order to go back home to found the first official earth skills training institute in Scotland, all in the same year she graduated from the University of Edinburgh. Due to her skill, talents and fun, she made her Blue Skies earth skills training institute a popular success in its very first year! If you live in Europe or are travel in to the British Isles, contact her through us or visit her website directly at http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/blueskiesearthskills/index.html or telephone (international prefix varies) 0131 228 9608/ 07984 893436 to find out about attending one of her great courses or to arrange a custom-designed programme. Most exciting is that Kate recently acquired a new permanent home for Blue Skies, a beautiful piece of land called Roeburn Wood, and it is situated about 30 minutes walk from Helensburgh, west of Glasgow. It is best accessed by train to Helenburgh Central railway station, a short journey from Glasgow. It’s harder and harder for Kate to get free to fly over and teach with us anymore due to her packed schedule at Blue Skies.

Krista Rome

Roles/Work: Advisor, Environmental Consultant
Hometown(s): Bellingham, WA
Approximate Age: 35
Introduced to the Wolf College: 2000
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2004

Krista Rome holds a bachelors degree in environmental studies from WWU Huxley College and works at a prestigious wetlands consulting firm in Washington State. She has extensive experience working with native plants, and guiding school groups in habitat restoration. She is also a talented basket and drum maker, and her passion is to live as sustainably as possible on the land, and to teach those around her the values and joys of simple living. Krista was also certified as a Wilderness First Responder. She graduated from our Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in the summer of 2003 after returning from the Peace Corps in Uganda, taught camps all summer in 2004, and continues to be a close advisor throughout the year. Krista has also gone on to become proprietor of the Grains & Beans Project which you can find at http://www.backyardbeansandgrains.com/

Andrew Twele

Roles/Work: Lead Instructor, Artisan, Survival Specialist
Hometown(s): Baltimore, MD and currently Medford, OR
Approximate Age: 30
Introduced to the Wolf College: 2007
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2008

Andrew completed our Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in 2007 and is then focused on a Year of Outdoor Living at Wolf Camp. He already came to us with great experience teaching hide tanning and other earth skills, and wet on to complete an apprenticeship with Outward Bound in his home town of Baltimore in the spring of 2008 before returning to Wolf Camp and teaching here all that summer. In 2009 and thereafter he lead wilderness therapy excursions for youth at Anasazi out of Phoenix, among other accolades, and he currently resides in a tee-pee with a wilderness community near Medford, OR.

 

Griz Chambers
Roles/Work: EMR, Camp Instructor, Artisan
Hometown(s): Crows Nest Pass, AB and currently Calgary, AB
Approximate Age: 25
Introduced to Wolf Camp: 2001
First Leadership Year at the Wolf College: 2004

Griz graduated from the Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in the summer of 2004. He first came to Wolf Camp as a young camper in 2001, then returned in 2003 as the first graduate of our Youth Mentoring CIT Program. Bill specializes in Primitive Artisanry, with expertise in hunting, fishing, and tracking. He lead our Primitive Fishing and Stone Age Technologies camps, plus co-taught a variety of day camps in 2005. He is an Emergency Medical Responder, a Wilderness First Responder, and is trained in Site/Risk Management. He hails from his hometown of Crow’s Nest Pass, Alberta, and is currently developing his own Earth Skills programs near Calgary.

Jay Doyon
Roles/Work: Permaculture Specialist
Hometown(s): Sherbrooke, QU
Approximate Age: 25
Introduced to the Wolf College: 2006
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2006
Jay is a permaculture activist, practitioner, and researcher. He has a few years of international cooperation work under his belt, and is engaged in the Ecovillage movement, especially at Earthaven in North Carolina where he did his year-long permaculture apprenticeship. Jay piloted our Permaculture Pioneer Case Study. He is currently studying the caretaking philosophy as defined by the field of earth skills in order to hone his land stewardship skills while making “forest gardening” his specialty. Jay went back to university and will be finishing up next spring, so we’re looking forward to having him here in 2010 to facilitate our Cooperative Residential Intensives as well as run our Permaculture Pioneer courses.

Nicco Minutoli

Roles/Work: Assistant Instructor & Organizer
Hometown(s): Milan, Italy
Approximate Age: 19
Introduced to Wolf Camp: 2004
First Leadership Year at the Wolf College: 2011

Nicco first attended camp at age 9, and has attended every camp since including Ultimate Scout. He teaches artisanry and survival, and is our prime gear/facilities organizer. He is currently attending Washington State University in Pullman WA where he is studying computational physics and is a Army Cadet.

 

 

Glen MacKay

Roles/Work: Camp Instructor
Hometown(s): Bellingham, WA and currently Oberlin, OH
Approximate Age: 23
Introduced to Wolf Camp: 2002
First Leadership Year at the Wolf College: 2008
Glen first came to camp in 2002, and has graduated from our ancient scout, tracking, hunter-gatherer and survival series of courses. He returned at age 16 as part of our Youth Mentoring CIT Program in 2004, and completed much of his Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship during the summer in 2006. For his senior project in 2007, he did a solo survival trek and is completed a senior thesis about it. You can read a summary by clicking on Survival Trek Log. Glen co-lead a couple camps for us in 2008, and recently graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio.

 

James Helms

 

Roles/Work: Camp Instructor
Hometown(s): Snohomish, WA
Approximate Age: 21
Introduced to Wolf Camp: 2001
First Leadership Year at the Wolf College: 2009

James first came to camp as a 9 year old back in 2001 during our first Secrets of the Ancient Scout week on Lummi Island. To his pleasant surprise, we later moved camp to his home town! Attending every year since, including completion of our Naturalist Mentoring CIT course, and our first Ultimate Scout camp in 2005 which requires graduation from nearly all our other camps. He also completed our Pedagogy of Permaculture & Earth Skills Education course in 2008 before assisting at camp, and while finishing our entire Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in 2009, he co-lead his first camps (Stone Age Artisans and Secrets of the Ancient Scout) which took place at his family cabin. His father is a founding board member of the WOLF Foundation, and his younger brothers have followed James’ lead by attending several camps themselves. But it is their upbringing, guided by a benevolent father who taught them all sorts of self-sufficiency (including safe and precise hunting skills) and a go-get-em mother who guided them to great successes (James is a nationally-ranked marksman; Sam is a collegiate-level rower at the young age of 15; Grayson is on similar paths with his own unique talents), which make James and his family stand out so much.

Aldin Huff

Roles/Work: Camp Instructor
Hometown(s): Bellingham, WA
Approximate Age: 20
Introduced to Wolf Camp: 2000
First Leadership Year at the Wolf College: 2009

Aldin is our first former day-camper-turned-instructor! He has always been known as the most naturally-gifted tracker we’ve had at any camp, and he has always said, even back at age 7, that he was going to become a Wolf Camp instructor and maybe “take over after Chris gets old and feeble.” Well, here he is, completing his Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship this summer, after having attended virtually all our camps over the years. Aldin is currently attending the Oregon College of Arts & Craft in Portland.

 

 

Rachel Edwards

Roles/Work: Camp Instructor, Herbalist
Hometown(s): Rutherfordton, NC
Approximate Age: 28
Introduced to the Wolf College: 2010
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2010

Rachel completed the Wolf College Summer Teaching Apprenticeship in 2010 after coming to us with great experience teaching environmental education and an herbal degree from Bastier University. She was subsequently hired to teach in Santa Barbara, CA and recently moved back to Asheville NC to pursue her masters degree.

 
Elise Santa Maria

Roles/Work: Apprentice
Hometown(s): Seattle, WA
Approximate Age: 22
Introduced to Wolf Camp: 2002
First Leadership Year at the Wolf College: 2005

Elise first came to camp in 2002 as part of our Natural Arts & Music series, and she completed our week-long Naturalist Mentoring CIT course at age 15 in 2005 and served as a youth mentor for the Herbal Spa camp. She completed a summer internship through Teens in Public Service at the Nature Consortium in 2007 helping with nature based art classes for children in low-income houseing. She’s also been doing community service for a few years with the Feral Cat Spay/Neuter Clinic in Seattle, was co-president of the Earth Serviice Corps at her high school, and is now attending the University of Washington.

 

Alexandra “Squirrel” Bunker

Roles/Work: Apprentice, Environmentalist
Hometown(s): Altamonte Springs, FL
Approximate Age: 24
Introduced to Wolf Camp: 2001
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2004

Alex first came to camp in 2001 as part of our wilderness survival and seaside kayaking courses. She returned at age 15 to help with our rock climbing and GeoTRIP courses as part of our Youth Mentoring CIT Program in 2004, graduating from our Wilderness First Responder course and other trainings that year. After returning from studying in Italy during high school, she become Florida’s youngest public official as supervisor of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District, and went on to work as a rock climbing guide throughout college. Alex recently graduated from Central Florida University with a degree in Environmental Studies and is embarking on a project to film green businesses around the world.

Parr Stover
Roles/Work: Apprentice
Hometown(s): Burlington, WA
Approximate Age: 17
Introduced to Wolf Camp: 2002
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2010

Preston Stover
Roles/Work: Apprentice
Hometown(s): Seattle, WA
Approximate Age: 17
Introduced to Wolf Camp: 2004
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2010

Cheyenne Dennis

 

Roles/Work: Apprentice
Hometown(s): Vancouver, WA
Approximate Age: 17
Introduced to Wolf Camp: 2010
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2012

 

 

Madeleine Marine
Roles/Work: CIT
Hometown(s): Manhattan Beach, CA
Approximate Age: 19
Introduced to Wolf Camp: 2005
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2009

Maddie first came to camp in 2005 and completed our Naturalist Mentoring CIT course in 2006, then our Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in 2009. Maddie is a great photographer including pictures such as the above, where you can see her on the far left as part of our staff training photo below.

Braden Ploger

 

Roles/Work: CIT
Hometown(s): Bainbridge Island, WA
Approximate Age: 16
Introduced to Wolf Camp: 2005
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2011 

 

 

Alex Olsen

 

Roles/Work: CIT
Hometown(s): Seattle, WA
Approximate Age: 16
Introduced to Wolf Camp: 2007
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2011

 

 

 

Andy Jacobs

 

Roles/Work: Promotions Coordinator, Admin & Logistics, Instructional Apprentice
Hometown(s): Seattle, WA
Approximate Age: 30
Introduced to Wolf Camp: 2011
First Leadership Year at Wolf Camp: 2013