Wilderness 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.This six day immersion into the 'go-anywhere' fundamental skill-sets of bushcraft and wilderness survival will furnish you with an in-depth, fully rounded and balanced understanding of living and travelling in wild places. This highly informative course eases the transformation into wilderness life as any apprehension is replaced by confidence, understanding and ability.
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?
On this course you will learn the fundamental skills for wilderness living and travel:
Please also note that seasonal subjects will be added to the syllabus, such as fungi ID during the Autumn courses.The Woodsmoke Woodlander course will conclude with an optional certificated test on the final day, allowing you to put into practice all that you have learnt. (On this course you will be given a bushcraft knife to keep).
Frequently Asked Questions - such as travel details, food queries & much more info!
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| "Just wanted to say a big thanks for last week – an amazing experience. I have come back feeling as though I have grown, and that's a precious and rare thing. I crossed a lot of thresholds - skinning animals, making fire (a strangely emotional moment that really did have the feeling of an initiation - funny how that word is pretty meaningless in our society today but how profoundly it fitted that moment when the ember takes). The whole course brought the first suggestions of a very deep awareness of a thing I've always loved (the outdoors) and I feel as if it has brought me to a fork in the road that I was looking to find all along." - Paul Wright |
Please also note that seasonal subjects will be added to the syllabus, such as fungi ID during the Autumn courses.The Woodsmoke Woodlander course will conclude with an optional certificated test on the final day, allowing you to put into practice all that you have learnt. (On this course you will be given a bushcraft knife to keep).
Frequently Asked Questions - such as travel details, food queries & much more info!
Documents for download
- a_fieldbook_of_the_stars.pdf (22/03/2009)