Rebecca Zeff's Blog (5)

Hello Tracker Friends. Want to win a trip? If anyone is interested, my mom and I are Referring Travel Agents and our company, YTB, has started the "Trip of a Lifetime Sweepstakes!" To enter you go to our website www.ytbtravel.com/trekandtravel, scroll down and you'll see the sweepstakes on the bottom right of the page. Click on "Enter Now!" and fill in your information. It's that easy :) There is a winner chosen every month, and then it starts again with a new destination. This is the current… Continue

Last weekend I took a bow making class in Eugene, Or. I couldn't stay for the whole thing, which lasted Friday afternoon through Sunday night, but due to the help of friends I got to take part of it. The goal of the class wasn't to make a beautiful thing that would hang on your wall and crack if you tried to shoot it. This was more of a... take chunks off this stick until you get a stick that bends type of thing. :) I'd thought about making a bow before. I always heard about the ones that people… Continue

Hello Trackers.

If anyone in the Portland area is interested, a local group called Deer Dance hosts tracking "Dirt Time" the last Sunday of every month. I'm going this month as well as another member of our standard and one of the volunteers. It's in one of the parks in Portland OR, the only cost is the $4 entry fee into the park. If anybody's interested I can give more info, or you can probably find it on the web. -Happy Tracking

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Hello again Tracker friends.

A few weeks ago I found something I'd been looking for since the Standard and even before. Usable roadkill. This time it was in the form of a squirrel. Yesterday I took it out of the freezer and began what I hope will be a successful brain-tanning process.

Once I had begun skinning it I wished I'd let it thaw a bit longer. It's an interesting thing, trying to cut around the "anus and reproductive organs" when the animal's legs are still frozen in pla

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Hello Tracker friends! I've been writing on my page about a survival trek I completed last week with Earth Walk Northwest. Feel free to check it out, and I'd love to hear about the post-Standard adventures everybody's been having. I hope everybody has a great day full of tracking and awareness. Continue