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 […]
Saturday, August 13, 10 a.m. Learning about emergency shelters Emergency “Man Made” shelters: KNOTS, TARPS, and SHELTERS. This is an excellent class to learn and practice basic KNOTS, and TARPS.We will begin with a review of the priorities of survival and how to address each. From there, we will focus on part of the thermoregulation […]