North House Folk School

Erik is a master birch bark canoe builder, past instructor at Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center, and director of the Arrowhead Wilderness School, whose mission is deep ecology education. Inspired by Finnish, Saami, and Anishinabe art and culture, Erik hikes or skis in the woods daily, enjoys a weekly wood-fired sauna, and leads a subsistence lifestyle which includes maple syruping, organic orcharding, harvesting wild rice, netting fish and hauling firewood with his sled dog team. A former park ranger at Grand Portage National Monument and outdoor skills instructor for Voyageur Outward Bound and Vermillion College in Ely, Minnesota, Erik's many skills include being a logsmith, dogsled builder, snowshoe-maker, and wilderness guide.