Path 01
The Trail
Hiking & Rucking
Boots, a loaded pack, and a climb. Putting hard ground under your feet has a way of pulling you out of the spiral and cutting your problems back down to the right size.
Resets a racing mind
The Man Behind It
Nobody taught me how to be a man. I had to forge it.
No one handed me a blueprint. I had to forge one in the fire, mostly alone — and the fire came early.
Fatherless, raised by a mom working two jobs, I taught myself how to be a man — alone. Then nine years as a volunteer firefighter piled on trauma that followed me home.
I buried it the way a lot of men do — alcohol, porn, and a slow-burning anger that made me a husband and father I never wanted to be. My marriage nearly broke under it. We separated, came back, separated again, raising four kids in the storm.
We made it to the edge of divorce — then chose to stay and rebuild. Years of counseling and hard truth, but what finally held was surrendering it to God. That faith is the ground we rebuilt on.
Forged Ground is the brotherhood I needed and couldn't find — so I built it. Whatever you're carrying, you weren't meant to carry it alone. Come walk with us.
— Robbie Russell, Founder
