BUSHCRAFT 101

This 4-day, 3-night course introduces the survival mindset by blending the essentials of your kit with skills for creating useful items from the natural landscape. You’ll learn how to supplement or replace expendable gear with what nature provides, giving you the confidence to be better prepared in an emergency—or simply to enrich your camping experience.

Registration deadline: 2 weeks prior to class start date.

Topics Covered:

• Tools and tool maintenance
• Crafting wooden tools for survival
• Building hasty buck saws from natural materials
• Bow drill fire-making
• Flint and steel & “next fire” mentality
• Non-conventional water collection and disinfection methods
• Debris huts and natural shelters
• Raised bed construction
• Resource selection and use
• Medicinal trees and plants
• Preparing medicinal simples
• Cordage making
• Sun compass and solar navigation basics
• Handline fishing reels
• Deadfall traps

Duration: 4 days, 3-nights

Class Limit 18

For questions regarding classes or gear lists, please contact our Lead Instructor, Ty Barker, at (304) 237-2173 or by email at tybarker73@yahoo.com. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM EST.

Start time: 8 am (first day of class)

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About our School:

• Fully Insured
• Red Cross Certified Training Facility
• EMT’s and Paramedic’s on Staff
• AED on Location 
• Epinephrine on Location
• Instructors are CPR and Wilderness First Aid Red Cross Certified 
• Low Student to Instructor to create a Pedagogy learning environment. 
• Most Instructors either former Military, EMS, or LE
• Dave Canterbury is NASAR Advanced Search and Rescue Certified 
• Dave Canterbury is Certified Expert Trapper by Fur Takers of America and a Certified Intermediate Herbalist by the Herbal Academy International School of Herbal Arts and Sciences
• All Instructors are equipped and licensed in HAM radio as well as PLB SAT comms for emergency communications away from classroom area.
• Training area is over 4500 Forested Acres 

Disclaimer:
Please make sure you take all gear with you at the end of the class. If gear is left behind, we will not be able to ship it to you, and will be considered abandoned. Minimum age 13 years old. Anyone under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult student registered for this class.