Wilderness Awakening Part 2 - Advanced Crafts

A continuation of our five day WIlderness Awakening, this course takes you several steps further towards your aim of self sufficiency in the wilderness.  Six days at our Wiltshire woodland site building on the skills you have already learnt whilst learning some important new ones.

Your first day will be spent using your previously honed shelter building experiences to build a comfortable home for the week, complete with beds, fireplace and door.  Following on from the Wilderness Awakening, your cooking fire must be lit on day one using the bow drill and natural tinder.  Then follows five days of advanced bushcraft, working flint to make tools and weapons, large game preparation, preserving meat in the wild, primitive cooking techniques, advanced carving and axe work, hide working and making buckskin and weaving willow and other hedgerow materials to make baskets and fishtraps.  You will also have time to learn about the local, seasonal foraging opportunities and will be expected to build gathered wild food into your diet providing and excellent opportunity to develop those skills in the right environment and with the right guidance.

When combined with the Wilderness Awakening, these six days in the woods give you a wealth of practical experience and the knowledge to provide everything you need from the natural world.  This is an advanced course requiring a 'can do' attitude from start to finish (even in bad weather).  It involves hard work from the outset and experience of living and working outdoors is vital therefore we insist that you must have already completed our five day Wilderness Awakening or a similar course of the same duration and content with a reputable company.

During the six days you will...

• Prepare your camp and build a comfortable semi permanent shelter to live in
• Learn about seasonal foraging opportunities and process wild plants for food
• Prepare large and small wild game
• Preserve wild meat
• Cook over a campfire using primitive techniques
• Work flint to make sharp tools
• Improvise strong cordage and bindings from natural materials
• Weave a fish trap from willow using basketry techniques
• Learn how to make nets in the wild
• Use an axe safely to fell and section small trees
• Carve wooden bowls and utensils with axe, knife and more primitive methods
• Tan a deer hide using natural resources
• Learn how to make bags, pouches and other buckskin and rawhide products
• Eat & drink until you pop during the final feast!

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The Wilderness Awakening courses (Part 1 & Part 2 - Advanced Crafts) will equip you with all the necessary skills and knowledge to attend The Hunter Gatherer Course, the ultimate test!

'Thanks Joe, I had a brilliant time on the course.  Yourself and Glenn did a great job and I'm really appreciative of all the effort you both put in to make it such a special and successful week.' - Fiona

Price per person £545.00

The course assembles the evening of the first day for the initial safety briefing at 7pm.
The course will finish at approximately 2pm on the final day.

Upcoming Dates

5th - 11th August 2012

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