Mick Dodge

Mick Dodge, also known as "The Barefoot Sensei", "the Barefoot Nomad" and "Walking Mountain" is a television personality and rainforest-dweller in Washington.

Early life
He is a native of the Olympic Peninsula. His great-grandparents settled in the region and Dodge grew up there as a child. He loved the outdoors. Dodge also lived in many other places around the country and the world as the son of a career Marine, Ronald L. Dodge. The younger Dodge graduated from high school in Okinawa, Japan. He enlisted in the Marine Corps and served for six years.

In the forest
Dodge decided to leave the modern world and retreat to the dense forest due to the stress of modern living. He was nicknamed "The Barefoot Sensei" due to his preference to not wear shoes or sandals when walking in the forest. Since 1991, he has been living barefoot, a decision that he believed helped cure him of plantar fasciitis, back pain and hammer toes. He also felt that it helped him connect more intuitively with the natural world.

EarthGym program
Despite the preference to be separated from modern civilization, Dodge is still involved with the community. In 1994, he and Jacquie Chandler created an earth-based fitness program they called The EarthGym, a fitness program in the forest where nature provides most of the equipment for physical training.

Media
Dodge is the subject of the National Geographic Channel reality TV series The Legend of Mick Dodge, about his unusual life dwelling in a forest.