Wilderfolk
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Wilderfolk · We Belong Outside

Learn the outdoors by living in it.

Guided days out, hands-on classes and old-school camping on the Mendocino Coast, and a fire at the end of the day that everybody ends up around. Come out for the day, bring your people for a weekend, or stay the night and do both.

See the experiencesCome for a night

Joining the tribe is free, and it’s how you book a night at camp.

What we do

A guide and a group gathered in the coastal forestExperiencesA canvas bell tent in a grassy clearing ringed by treesCampingCamp at night during Camp Catch n Cook, lit up around the tables and the fireEvents
An angler casting from the rocks into heavy surf

Special Events

November 6 to 8, 2026 · At Camp Candy Cap

Camp Catch n Cook is back.

Three days of foraging, fishing, and campfire cooking with Kevin Smith of Catch N Cook California and Taku Kondo of Outdoor Chef Life. The first one sold out with a waitlist behind it. You catch it, you clean it, you cook it over the fire, and you eat better than you do at home.

Kevin sells the seats on his own site and gave us one, which we’re drawing for among the tribe, and whoever’s drawn gets to take it at Kevin’s price. Joining is free and so is the draw.

Still open until October 15. Join now!

How to get a seat

Filmed here

Taku Kondo of Outdoor Chef Life laying out sashimi on a board under the tarp at camp

Can’t beat camping in a place steps away from tide pools loaded with fresh seafood.

Taku Kondo, Outdoor Chef Life

Kevin Smith of Catch N Cook California holding two oyster mushrooms

Old-school camping the way it should be.

Kevin Smith, Catch N Cook California

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Our locations

A canvas tent tucked into thick green coastal forest

Camp Candy Cap

Twelve acres of coastal forest on the Mendocino coast, spread out enough to buy you real privacy and real quiet. There’s a communal fire in the meadow, a wood-fired sauna, and the water about five minutes’ walk away.

See the camp

A trail running through tall coastal forest and ferns

How we teach

Everything happens outdoors, with your hands in it.

Everything we run is led by people who’ve spent years on this ground, and you’ll be doing it rather than watching it. Ankle deep in a tide pool, sorting mushrooms on a tarp, or rolling sushi on a rock with what you picked up ten minutes earlier.

From the Journal

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We Belong Outside.

Come out for a day on the coast, bring your people for a weekend, or both.

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