Emily Bartle
First Year at BOSS: 2025
Current Position: Specialist Instructor
Hometown: Akron, OH
Currenty Resides In: Boulder, UT
I came to BOSS because:
I took Desert Navigator in 2019. I had hiked over 7,000 miles with my partner and wanted to increase my education in navigation to plan solo walking adventures.
I work at BOSS because:
...because: all of its teachings and courses are taught in a wilderness area that I deeply cherish and love. My longest personal survival trip was 80 days in the canyon lands in the Boulder, Utah area.
About Emily Bartle
Emily joyfully celebrates the living and non-living. Traditional Hide Tanning is one of the many crafts she loves to share with community and with her students. Emily tanned her first hide at 18 years old, primarily working with roadkill animals. In her early 20’s, she began her work with wild game processors, salvaging her materials from the waste of the butcher shops. Of the materials she scavenged; Animal skins, scrap meat, bones, hooves, and fat all were used for walkabouts, personal crafts, and teaching classes. She teaches whole animal processing, hide tanning, clothing making, basketry, primitive pottery and natural movement