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Woodlander Bushcraft Course
The fundamental skills of wilderness bushcraft

tinder_bundleWilderness bushcraft is the most encompassing of all the outdoor pursuits. Survival skills, native crafts, primitive technology, ethnology; ethnobotany and mycology, gathering wild food and backwoods cookery, camp-craft, expedition skills, tracking and wildlife watching are all aspects of this fascinating subject.

Could you travel on a wilderness adventure safe in the knowledge that should you lose your pack, damage vital equipment or become stranded far from civilisation, you can improvise using materials from the natural environment? Could you build a shelter without man made fabrics, or make fire by friction if you have no matches? Could you feed yourself from the wild? Find, filter and purify water without the aid of modern chemicals or containers? Do you carry these ancient skills in your mind and muscles, as well as the modern equipment in your pack?


“Better to walk one mile than to read a thousand books” - Confucius

On this course you will learn the fundamental skills for wilderness living and travel:
  • Safe use and maintenance of cutting tools
  • Wilderness Fire making techniques, from modern to friction
  • Collection, purification and transportation of water
  • Wilderness fishing methods
  • Techniques for hunting and trapping
  • Natural shelter types; construction and considerations
  • Star-craft navigation
  • Natural bindings and cord
  • Wild plant identification; food, folklore and medicine
  • Tree identification; food, utility and woodcarving
  • Backwoods cookery
  • The modern outfit - going light
  • Basic Mountain safety
  • Rope throwing & basic knots
The Woodsmoke Woodlander course will conclude with a certificated test on the final day, allowing you to put into practice all that you have learnt. (Please note that on this course you will be given a sheath knife to keep).

For further course infomation and booking details, please click here
2008 Dates:
28 Sept. - 4 Oct. - Full
2009 Dates:
3- 9 May - Available
17 - 23 May - Available
14 - 20 June - Available
16 - 22 August - Available
31 Aug. - 5 Sept. - Available
27 Sept. - 3 Oct. - Available

Price: £545.00 (inc VAT.)
Group Size: 12

Please Note: This course is fully catered.