Specialists in outdoor wilderness survival courses

Tracking Course

Understanding the behaviour patterns and movements of the permanent residents of the forest through reading the signs they leave behind is one of the best waysRoe Deer to learn the secrets of living in the woods.  The art of tracking opens your eyes to the constant hustle bustle of activity happening around us everyday in the undergrowth.  Most people blunder along, completely unaware of the creatures going about their daily business right under their noses.  Not the tracker though!  The tracker can read the subtle sign left behind and knows exactly who has been doing what.  The tracker understands the pace of woodland life, how to move carefully and quietly, where to find the woodland inhabitants and how to see without being seen.

By the end of the weekend you will have learnt about:Hare tracks in the snow

  • Making a tracking stick
  • Tracking History and Terminology
  • Animal Senses and how they detect us
  • Human senses including using your three types of vision
  • Animal Tracks and ID
  • Intuitive Tracking
  • Ageing footprints and sign
  • Feeding, homes, scat and hair ID
  • Animal CSI
  • Soundmapping
  • Track Traps
  • Language of Birds and interpretation
  • Stalking Techniques & moving silently
  • Natural camouflage and use of dead space
  • Awareness
  • Animal behavious
  • Gaits and gait patterns
  • Habitats
  • Compression shapes
  • Action Indicators
  • Track analysis

Reading the morning news in the woodsThis is an intensive weekend requiring lots of concentration and hard work (dirt time).  There will,however be time to relax around the campfire in the evening and talk about the day's findings over a hot brew.  The skills you learn on this weekend will definitely bring you closer to nature and will prove useful whether you're walking around your local woods or doing something more adventurous overseas.

This course will be taught by Guest Instructor Ian Maxwell

Price per person £150.00

The course assembles Friday evening for an initial safety brief at 7pm and finishes at approximately 4pm on the Sunday.  Please note this course is Self Catering

Upcoming Dates

26th - 28th March 2010 - Fully Booked - 2011 Date to be confirmed


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