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   Native Bushcraft Course
Applied Wilderness Living Skills

Native Bushcraft Gallery



The Native course is an week-long intermediate level wilderness survival course. It is a natural progression and will expand upon and add to many of the bushcraft techniques learned on the Woodlander course. It is an opportunity to for those who wish to experience life in the woods with minimal equipment, learning advanced wilderness living skills.

Throughout this course you will learn to safely use an axe to build and live in a natural shelter. You will sleep on a  bed of spruce boughs and construct a comfortable backwoods 'thermarest'. Sleeping bags are not permitted after the first night but a blanket roll is provided. Truly mastering your fire management skills, you will cook your evening meals on an open fire utilising a myriad of backwoods techniques, although lunch and breakfast will be provided in order that you stay well fed and able to concentrate on the multitude of new skills available to learn. Below is and example of some of the many advanced skills covered throughout the duration of this course.


  2012 Dates:

 1 - 7 July
 
 Price: £545.00
 per person (inc. VAT.) p
 Group Size: 14
 

"Its not just the newly acquired skills; willow weaving, tracking or advanced trapping that does it; its the superb way that you manage to give a real insight into how people used to and still live using these skills, so much so that sitting round a camp fire late at night I feel truly connected to vast and ancient brotherhood. You can almost feel the spirits of our ancestors and brothers around the world looking over your shoulder and nodding approvingly as you wrestle to carve a troublesome piece of Yew into a beautiful and practical fishing tool." - David Kennedy
If you are interested in this course you might also enjoy the more advanced Nomad Bushcraft Course as well.

Please note; you will need to bring a bring a Gransfors Bruk Small Forest Axe and must have completed the Woodsmoke Woodlander course (or course of equivalent standard).The Native course is NOT a prerequisite for our Abo’ or Nomad courses.

heads upHeads Up... Whilst not essential, if you are keen on doing a bit of pre-course reading, we would recommend the following book -

Bushcraft by Richard Graves (free e-book)


Please Note: This course is fully catered, but you will be expected to cook in small groups over the campfire.

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