a land-based experiential project dedicated to restoring and healing humanity’s relationship with the biosphere. Hotlum facilitates opportunities for connection, engagement and hands-on participation in humanity’s work of healing this damaged landscape, and through that process, healing ourselves.
Hotlum translates to “steep rock” in the Kahosadi (Shasta) language, the people Indigenous to this land who were wiped out by genocide in the 1860s. This sense permeates the vision of this place: our task if formidable, and our way is steep and hard. We honor those who came before us by participating in these practices of reconciliation.
Our camp is on the slopes of the iconic volcano Mount Shasta, overlooking a deeply stressed watershed,the Clarence King watershed, a tributary of the Shasta River watershed, tributary of the Klamath River. Restoring this land to health will require tremendous work and dedication from all participants, human and More-Than-Human, serving as a microcosm of the work we must all do to build resilience, symbiotic/synergistic relationships in this time of profound ecological contraction. Consider joining us.