Kyt Lyn Walken


  • Books on Mantracking.

    This post is intended to be a sort of “Tracker List” of some good books I’ve actually bought&found on Mantracking. The order is absolutely randomly and the update is steady.  

  • Conservation Ranger Course with C.R.O.W.

    Conservation Ranger Course with C.R.O.W.

    On May 5th and 6th I’ve attendend the first topic of the Conservation Ranger Course developed and hold by C.R.O.W. [Conservation Rangers Operations Worldwide]. On July 22nd at European Security Academy, in Poland, me and all the other attendants graduated successfully as Rangers. The reasons behind the choice to take part of this lie in…

  • To read is to understand. To understand is to belong.

    How many times we have seen the ground and just considered it terrain, grain, grass, peebles, sand and more over or even concrete and asphalt? Thousands. “Learn how to read the ground“. That precisely what Tracking is. Ground  shows up itself as an amalgam of signs, as an inner chaos to the most novices among Tracking…

  • Dizziness before Tracking?

    Dizziness before Tracking?

    Have you ever experienced a sense of dizziness just a couple of minutes of early dirt time? I have, I won’t hide you that. It comes out that my mind and my eyes start to tremble in the precise moment I need them the most. You can easily figure out the scene: I’m just arrived…

  • Tracking in Movies and TV Series.

    Tracking in Movies and TV Series.

    Frantically updated as I run across into new stuff, this list is intended to be an invitation. Not all the movies here mentioned are masterpiece or what, they just contain some scenes (good or bad reconstructions, it depends) based on Tracking. Enjoy and please write me pm or leave a comment if you have some…

  • About enhancing tracks at night.

    About enhancing tracks at night.

    In my personal experience as a student of Tracking, in quite every book I’ve read I’ve run across the amount of importance light has in Tracking. Not only daylight I mean. To the most of people, Tracking during the darkness should be an oxymoron. How could you think to follow tracks when it’s night? How…

  • Observation Training.

    Observation Training.

    A crucial part in Tracking is played by observation of every detail which happens to be “out of order” in Nature. In fact, the gait of a person walking in a forest, for example, not only determines his presence in it, but it does also alterate the natural state of that particular kind of environment.…

  • The Tracking Stick.

    The Tracking Stick.

    The Tracking Stick, as well for Man tracking as for animal tracking, introduced in a sort of “official way” by Jack Kearney, is no doubt a valuable tool for the Tracker to determine the Rob Speiden so-called Prime Sign Area (Foundations for Awareness, Signcutting and Tracking) where you can easily find the next track once…

  • The Richardson Case, 1786.

    The Richardson Case, 1786.

    One of the first cases with footwear evidence presented in Court was the Richardson case from Kirkcudbright, Scotland in 1786. The case depicted the fatal stabbing of a young woman. As we can read in the deposition, the investigator tracked the footprints that actually left the scene: the perpetrator’s shoes appeared to be “heavily nailed…

  • The ground does not lie.

    The ground does not lie.

    One of the fundamental rules in Tracking. The ground does not lie. You are not simply looking at a footprint. What you have in front of your eyes is an entire story, or a part of it. It’s up to you read what is impressed in ground and collect all the details you can earn…