SURVIVAL SKILLS, Friday,October 1, 7 p.m. Sponsored by Pasadena City College. Call (626) 585-7608 for information and registration. Cost to college is $65. This course consists of five two-hour classes, on five consecutive Friday nights. Class topics include uses of wild plants for food and medicine, purifying and finding water, making fire with primitive and […]
Thursday,May 19, noon TRIGGERS, TRAPS, DEADFALLS, SNARES, AND RELATED BUSHCRAFT Workshop In our approx. 2 hour class, you’ll learn (by doing) how to make figure 4 deadfalls, promontory pegs, quail traps, snares, and maybe a few other techniques, depending on our time. You will learn by doing, so don't forget to bring your knife if […]
SHELTER. Thursday, August 11, noon. Today, we will focus upon wilderness shelters. You’ll get to set up a few modern shelters, but mostly we’ll work on a few of the more traditional sorts of shelters that you’d construct strictly from the wild. These include the body hollow, the lean-to, and the half-dome shelter. You’ll also […]