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Wilderness Living Skills
Discover, learn, and develop techniques for wilderness living and survival skills with expeditionary leader Dr. Nicole Apelian. Dr. Nicole shares her expertise and outdoor wilderness living skills with a crash course in how to survive in the wilderness without supplies or very minimal supplies. Experience what it takes to survive in the wild without going wild.
Prepping 101: Water!
Nicole shares tips for collecting, storing, and purifying water, so you can be prepared in any circumstance.
The Ultimate Guide to Foraging Wild Foods — Now Available!
Nicole shares her brand-new book: The Foragers Guide to Wild Foods, Edible Plants, Lichens, Mushrooms, and Seaweeds.
Feasting on Foraged Fare: Lamb’s Quarter!
Lamb’s Quarter is a nutritional powerhouse, an effective poultice, and a hearty annual that can be found growing wild on every continent.
Wild Foods 101: Safely Foraging Edible Plants and Creatures
A brief primer on foraging for edibles. Covered are safety and nutrition considerations, and recipes for pine needle tea and bee balm icing.
Cooking on the Wild Side: Ideas & Inspiration for Foraged Fare Year-Round
Are you ready to get excited about wild foods and foraging? Learn more about the magic that comes with foraging your next meal.
Discover the Joy of Wild foods, Foraging, and DIY Spore Prints
Nicole shares her enthusiasm for foraging in the wilderness for food, including plants you may be able to locate close to home.
The Gift of Discomfort
Surviving (and thriving) in raw, untamed wilderness. Nicole Apelian talks joyful triumph and her new mini-series, “Surviving The Stone Age”.
Now on Amazon: A Reference Guide to Surviving Nature by Nicole Apelian
A Reference Guide to Surviving Nature I love being outdoors – solo, with my children, with friends and family – every chance I get, I’m hiking, camping, or just sitting somewhere in nature, enjoying what’s around me. Over the years as I’ve worked with more and more...
Favorite Things: Foraging Field Reference Bandana
When the Wazoo Survival Gear crew asked me to help them create this foraging field reference bandana along with Mark Merriwether Vorderbruggen I was thrilled. Foraging is something I teach a few times every year because it is such an important part of being prepared...
Wilderness Living & Survival Skills Workshop with Larry Roberts & Nicole Apelian
Experience what it takes to survive ALONE in the woods with Dr. Nicole Apelian and Larry Roberts from the History Channel’s TV show ‘Alone’ during this 3-day Survival Skills Workshop in Raymond, Washington Learn the skills Larry and Nicole used to survive and thrive...
The Sustainable Wild Podcast | Being Prepared for Wilderness Survival
Unfortunately, it appears that this podcast is no longer available. You can explore other interviews & podcasts with Nicole Apelian here and additional press items here. On this episode of The Sustainable Wild Podcast, I address the following questions: Are you...
My Bushcraft Fire Starter Necklace & Whetstone….
These two items are on my 'favorite things' list because they are not only functional and easy to carry, but they're beautifully handcrafted and tooled. Bushcraft Fire Starter Leather Necklace I often get complimented on this unique necklace by folks who simply like...
LA Times | Step 1: Scout the setting; Step 2: Interview the locals; Step 3: Write ‘Leave No Trace’
From the LA Times article authored by Debra Grank: Nicole Apelian, the wilderness educator and guide, read the script and gave us extensive notes on how people like Will and Tom might go about their daily activities. Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie, who play Will and...
Two-Day Course: The Basics of Wilderness Living and Survival Skills
I'm thrilled to be teaching the first immersive experience available through Women Teach Men! Join me Summer 2019 (exact dates TBD) for two days of learning hands-on the wilderness living and survival skills you need to survive in the woods - registration is open now....
Portland Monthly | This Banana Slug–Eating Survivalist Will School You on Wilderness Skills
Nicole Apelian says those mustard-colored monopods are delicious. From the Portland Monthly article, authored by Rebecca Jacobson: Nicole Apelian can build a waterproof shelter from forest debris. She can start a fire in the dumping rain. And, most impressively, she...
Bleeker Street Media | An Interview with Dr. Nicole Apelian
From the article on Bleeker Street Media | by Peter Bowen: In Debra Granik's Leave No Trace, a father (Ben Foster) and his daughter (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie) create a hidden home in the middle of Portland's Forest Park. For Granik, "Tom and Will are part of a...
Alone – Season 5!
Catch Nicole Apelian in Season 5 of the History Channel’s hit show Alone. Nicole and 10 other survivalists, all from previous seasons of Alone, return for a second chance to win. Season 5 is set into the remote surroundings of Northern Mongolia. From the History...
Rabbitstick Skills Gathering | Classes with Nicole Apelian
I will be teaching at the Rabbitstick Skills Gathering in Rexburg Idaho alongside many fantastic instructors September 9th - 15th, 2018. This is an exciting opportunity to camp with other traditional skills enthusiasts, learn craft and skill from experienced and...
Leave No Trace: The Art of Nature Connection Training
We worked in an intensive camp with Dr. Nicole Apelian, she was the engine and heart of this film. She taught Tom, Debra, our crew and myself that touching nature in some small way every day is healing. She reminded all of us that connection to the eternal makes...
Salon | Ben Foster on his role in indie hit “Leave No Trace”
From the Salon interview with actor Ben Foster on his role in the film "Leave No Trace" by Andrew O'Hehir: "I worked with someone named Dr. Nicole Apelian for these tribal skills, or primitive skills rather. Nature becomes legible. You get into the forest and it's...
Dazed | The moving new film about a father and daughter living outside society
From the Dazed article by Nick Chen: 'Will and 13-year-old Tom, a father and daughter camping out in the wilderness, are what most of us consider to be homeless. The self-sufficient duo, played by Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie in Debra Granik’s poignant, socially...
The Oregonian | Story of father and girl found living in Forest Park is now a movie
From the article on OregonLive by Marc Mohan: For the second time this year, a powerful novel by a Portland-area author has become an acclaimed independent film focused on characters at the margins of society. ...Assisting with the actors' wilderness training was...
5-Day Wilderness Survival Skills Workshop with Nicole Apelian and Larry Roberts
Join me and Alone Show alum Larry Roberts for a 5-Day Wilderness Survival Skills Workshop at my property in Raymond, Washington! There are still a couple of spots left for my upcoming 5-day Wilderness Survival Skills Workshop in the beautiful Willapa Hills of Raymond,...
The Daily Astorian | Experiencing ‘Alone’ with Nicole Apelian
From the article in The Daily Astorian | by Aaron Breniman: When I first saw History’s hit show “Alone,” I wanted to know more about the contestants, what they learned and how the experience changed them. The show features 10 contestants dropped off in the remote...
Portland Tribune | Nicole Apelian Gets Back To Basics
Survival skills pro and 'Alone' star is consulting on movie From the Portland Tribune article, authored by Lyndsey Hewitt: Apelian believes that humanity is too disconnected and needs to find its way back to community living. "Because these things have been taken out...
KSL News Utah | Preparing for the worst:
From the KSL News Utah article by Carter Williams: Nicole Apelian, a scientist, researcher, survivor skills instructor and subject of History Channel’s season two of “Alone,” said another important thing individuals can do now is to actually test their preparedness....
Deseret News | PrepperCon to offer tips, tools on surviving disaster
From the Deseret News article by Caresa Alexander Randall: "Guest celebrities this year include Alan Kay and Nicole Apelian of the History Channel’s “Alone,” and Salvador Alvarenga, who survived 438 days at sea. This year continues on the success of the past two...
“Experience Alone” and Preparedness Workshop with Alan Kay and Nicole Apelian – May 2017
Join Alan Kay and Nicole Apelian from the Alone Show on History Channel for a 5-Day Wilderness Living Skills and Emergency Preparedness Experience! Want to experience what it takes to be Alone in the woods for the long-term? Join Nicole and Alan from the hit TV show...
Wilderness Living Skills Workshop in Oregon
Join Nicole Apelian, Alan Kay and Jose Amoedo for a Wilderness Living Skills Workshop in Oregon! When: Feb. 3rd, 4th and 5th Where: Soapstone Woodland Retreat Cost: $595 Over three days, you'll learn crucial wilderness skills such as fire, shelter, water, trapping,...
Popular Mechanics | Everything You Need to Know About Foraging for Food in the Wild
From the Popular Mechanics article, authored by Jay Bennett: Advice from some of the survivalists who competed on the History Channel's show Alone. Flora can be trickier to identify than fauna. There are many instances where two plant species look similar, but one is...
A Month of Teaching and Travels
I have just returned home after almost a month of teaching and travels, living outside almost the entire time. It was one of those perfect journeys, spent with good people outside in beautiful places. Soapstone Wilderness Living Skills Workshop My old friend Jose (who...
TJ Survival | Nicole Apelian Talks Knives & Survival for Women
Nicole Apelian talks in detail about the custom knife she used during Season 2 of the hit TV show "Alone" on The History Channel where Nicole and 10 others survived the wilderness with only their wits, their skills, and the ten items they each chose to carry in their...
“EXPERIENCE ALONE” with Nicole & Jose
Join Jose Amoedo and Nicole Apelian from the Alone Show on History Channel for a 5-Day Wilderness Living Skills Experience! Want to experience what it takes to be Alone in the woods for the long-term? Join Nicole and Jose from the hit TV show Alone for this 5-day...
Phillippine Daily Inquirer | Woman survives the wild, all by her lonesome, in ‘Alone’
From the article from the Philippine Daily Inquirer by Oliver M. Pulumbarit: There were 10 people who got stranded on Vancouver Island in Canada, she related. “We had a week of camera training together and we were individually dropped by seaplane, boat and helicopter...
Inquisitr | Nicole Apelian On Being One Of First Three Women on ‘Alone’
From the Inquisitr article by Danielle McGaw: Nicole Apelian is getting a fair amount of media attention because not only is she in that group of women that are first to be on Alone, but she has some special circumstances. She has multiple sclerosis. Of course, having...
The Truth About Knives | The Knives of History’s Alone, Season 2
From the article on The Truth About Knives by David C Andersen "NICOLE APELIAN / CUSTOM KUKRI: Nicole Apelian worked as a game warden for the Peace Corps and is a safari guide and anthropologist. She has brought along a whopper – a custom kukri-inspired blade,...