NATURAL TRIAD OUTDOORS The Outdoor Life:


out for the rest of their lives. Scientists are proving more and more that we need to spend more time outdoors and less time sitting in front of screens. Working in the outdoors used to be the norm; now it is more the exception. So, who are these people who have refused a life indoors, within the artificial lights, going to their building in the morning in darkness and returning to their home building in the evening in darkness for many months of the year - maybe only being in the actual light of day for less than an hour for a hur- ried and chaotic lunch? There are inspiring local Triad folks


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(there are more, many more) who have said “no” to this lifestyle. Now for the record, there is nothing inherently wrong with the indoor working lifestyle. On the contrary, many people prefer the corporate/indoor environment, but there is a troubling trend that humans are not spending enough time outdoors and studies are revealing that this just may be killing us. Killing us by an in- creasingly sedentary lifestyle, sitting in our cars to commute, sitting at our desks for hours each day, sitting in our cars to com- mute again, sitting on our couches like zombies in front of the TV or heads bent


ome people would rather perish than be chained to a desk inside a cubicle breathing recycled air day in and day


Locals Who Make Their Living Outdoors


down maiming our spines looking at our smart- phones. Like it or not, it is our society but there are those who have chosen a what is now considered an unconventional path. Let’s meet one.


Gareth Tate from Climax, NC


Right this minute, as this is written, he


is fairly close to home, which one cannot always say about Gareth. Today he is tarpon fishing in the Florida Keys (when you travel to Madagascar and beyond, far far


Daniel Lackey, FNP-C


www.RobinhoodIntegrativeHealth.com Daniel Lackey, FNP-C


Daniel Lackey, FNP-C is a board certified Nurse Practitioner. His background is in Emergency Medi- cine, with 5 years of experience as an ER nurse. His nurse practitioner degree includes specialties in fami- ly practice and adult gerontological acute care. Following his true pas- sion, however, he also obtained a certification in functional medi- cine. He finds it is truly rewarding and efficacious to address the root cause of illness instead of viewing the body as separate systems.


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beyond, Florida is indeed close to home) and probably promoting Wilderness Fish- ing Kayaks, his own Session Studios Com- pany and various other gear companies he is sponsored by. Besides this side gig in Florida, Gareth works for and is affiliated with National Geographic Expeditions as a videographer and photographer for them, and subs equent l y travels extensive- ly all over the world. Adventur- ing. Kayaking. Skiing. Mountain Biking. Taking photos and vid- eos from ground, water and air. For money. These are his jobs. He’s f rom


Climax. Okay, so he moved there from Minnesota when he was 14


but still, he is a local and some may know his locally famous mother as “The Goat Lady". Yes, Gareth’s wonderful mother previously owned the goat farm with her sister -in-law that became, and still is, a huge success. Gareth and his mother have a special adventurous bond that is warming to witness. What was the catalyst for Gareth to


pursue a life lived and worked outdoors? He says even as a child in Minnesota his family fostered an adventurous lifestyle. His fondest early memories are canoe camping with his father and grandfather in the famously pristine and wildly beautiful Boundary Waters (which incidentally are currently under attack for mining). He also says that living on the goat farm taught him hard work—what you put in, you get out. When Gareth was a teen, he was lighting a firecracker that exploded and took three of the fingers off his right hand, leaving him with a finger and a thumb on that hand. He had a decision to make: let this injury define him and hold him back or choose a survivalist attitude and see just what he COULD do with his remaining fingers and


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