The Human Path Instructors:
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Sam Coffman, Founder - Head Instructor
Sam Coffman grew up exploring and learning about wilderness camping and woodcraft
at a very early age, as his family spent summers in isolated self-supporting wilderness
camps due to his father's job as a field geologist.
He has over 10 years of military experience as a U.S. Special Forces Medic, an interrogator
and a linguist. He studied botany and bioregional medicine both privately and at
several outdoor schools in Colorado. He taught herbology and wildcrafting for the
Boulder School of Natural Medicine and spent several years testing his own primitive
living skills throughout regions of the Rocky Mountains, in solitary survival excursions
with no equipment beyond a knife. He has also attended numerous survival-related
courses, both military and civilian, and has taught wilderness survival, tactics,
self defense and field medicine for the military as well as federal and local law
enforcement agencies.
Sam has over 25 years of martial arts experience both as a student and instructor
ranging in styles from traditional Chinese martial arts, to stick and knife fighting,
to Mixed Martial Arts and grappling.
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Scott Schoner - Instructor
Scott Schoner has 12 years of both enlisted and commissioned military service, ranging
from combat engineer to the majority of experience in airborne and light infantry
units.
Scott has studied several forms of martial arts over several decades, and holds
a black belt in Aikido. He has spent years training in outdoor skills and has attended
numerous nature awareness and survival courses at a wide variety of schools, most
notably Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracker School. He is certified in Wilderness First Aid,
PADI Rescue Diving.
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Dr. Paul B. Range, PhD - Instructor
Dr. Paul Range has over 50 years experience in the outdoors starting in his youth
as an Eagle Scout, then with his substantial experience as an officer in the U.S.
Special Forces, Delta, Ranger, Pathfinder, UDT and Pilot.
Dr. Range has also been involved in Sustainable Agriculture, Aquaponics and Simplified
Technology for the past 40 years, designing and building sustainable systems, utilizing
container structures in conjunction with Intentional Communities.
He is the Co-Founder of
Reliance Community Farms, a teaching community and is a Certified Permaculture
instructor.
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