BUSHCRAFT 101

This Bushcraft 101 Class gives outdoor enthusiasts the chance to deepen their knowledge and practice of bushcrafting. Learn specialized skills like wooden tool maintenance, bow drill fire making, and bark container making, as well as ancient techniques such as rope making and wooden pulleys. Explore medicinal trees, sun compass navigation and camp cooking, as well as deadfall traps. This low intensity course involves walks up to 5km with project materiel.

The registration deadline is 2 weeks prior to class start date.

Subject Matter Outline:

• Tools and Maintenance  
• Wooden tools
• Buck saws and types off the landscape
• Bow drill fire making
• Debris Huts/natural Shelters
• Bark containers or shrink pots
• Ötzi style pack frames
• Medicinal Trees
• Rope making
• Wooden pulleys
• Spoon carving
• Sun compass and Solar Navigation
• Pot cranes and cooking apparatuses
• Simple camp cooking
• Bushcraft stool
• Medicinal preps
• Deadfall Traps

Duration: 4 days, 3-nights

Class Limit 18

Start time: 8 am (first day of class)

• Required Gear List –
• Meeting Location – 
• Cabin Rentals – 
• Cancellation Policy – 

About our School:

• Fully Insured
• Red Cross Certified Training Facility
• EMT’s and Paramedic’s on Staff
• AED on Location 
• Epinephrine on Location
• Instructors are CPR and Wilderness First Aid Red Cross Certified 
• Low Student to Instructor to create a Pedagogy learning environment. 
• Most Instructors either former Military, EMS, or LE
• Dave Canterbury is NASAR Advanced Search and Rescue Certified 
• Dave Canterbury is Certified Expert Trapper by Fur Takers of America and a Certified Intermediate Herbalist by the Herbal Academy International School of Herbal Arts and Sciences
• All Instructors are equipped and licensed in HAM radio as well as PLB SAT comms for emergency communications away from classroom area.
• Training area is over 4500 Forested Acres 

Disclaimer:
Please make sure you take all gear with you at the end of the class. If gear is left behind, we will not be able to ship it to you, and will be considered abandoned. Minimum age 13 years old. Anyone under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult student registered for this class.