Who have you taken bushcraft/primitive living/survival courses from?

Marion David Poff

Marion David Poff

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Good Day,

Who have you taken bushcraft/primitive living/survival courses from?

And in particular, who does the best instruction that doesn't involve some some sort of "impact" vision quest forced deprivation period?

Thank you,
Marion
 
Marty Simon at the Wilderness Learning Center

Marty and his crew (including our own moderator and TV star, Kevin Estela) are great.
You learn a ton while tent camping and eating a lot of good food.
The only drawback for you is their east coast location.

You can also check out this tread
 
I really enjoyed Tom Brown's Classes. He and the other Instructors are very riveting and keep your attention, you get all the info you need, the pine barrens are awesome, but it is a little spendy.
 
Another nod to George Hedgepeth and his Briar Patch school.

I did Primitive Skills with him as well as a Medicinal Plants course and this weekend I'm headed up to do a full-day plant class.

B
 
Tom Brown

Earthwalk Northwest

Wilderness Awareness School, (though this was more on Awareness and Tracking)
 
The Wilderness Learning Center has it all! Great instructors, hands on training, excellent food, and outstanding Comradery!

The course is extremely well planned and executed. I find it hard to imagine a better school. Even Ron Hood endorses this school.

Imagine a week of camping with your friends, but the benefit of learning everything you need to know about Wilderness Survival in away that it sticks. I was not suprised to see guys from all over the country as well as Canada attend the course I took!

More info at www.weteachu.com
 
I took their flintknapping, primitive fishing and Survival trek.

I've also taken Karen's plant classes and the tanning class. Good people! Frank and Karen were both, at one time head instructors at Tom's school, and still fly out there to teach on occasion.
 
From my uncle, in the hills of north Georgia & Tenn. hillbillys are great survivalist !!!! he taught me how to hunt, fish, trap, & about different plants, used for eating & medicine . & how to convert corn to liquid :D
 
The Ultimate Abo course by Cody Lundin is the closest thing I know of deprivation type course. I believe the BOSS school pushes you to, but not as long...

Hope you like rat on the barbie...

http://www.codylundin.com/ultimate_abo.html

No cell phones, no pagers, no GPS. Find out what it’s like to become truly self-sufficient in the wilderness! The Ultimate Abo allows you to step back in time a thousand years and experience nature on Her own terms. You’ll spend the first six days of your journey at a remote, wilderness base camp.
From this landscape, you will gather and fashion all of your gear from natural materials. For the last three days, your tribe will leave the base camp, setting out on foot to explore, travel, and live like nomadic hunter-gatherer’s using only the primitive gear we have created. This is not just another outdoor course, it’s a new outlook on life allowing you to live what you’ve learned!

Experience nine full days of life-sustaining wisdom including all the fun of the “Essential Abo” and “Provident Primitive” courses plus: constructing willow pack-frames, stone and bone tools, the art of primitive cooking including stone boiling, hot rock ovens, wooden grills, coal cooking and more, primitive fishing techniques, cattail and bulrush sleeping mats, finger weaving pack straps and belts, making and using pine-pitch glue, traveling with primitive gear, safe and effective camp site selection, natural crafting, safe knife use techniques, and much more! Two meals a day are included for the first six days; we’ll hunt and gather food as a tribe for the last three.

Note: The Ultimate Abo continues to be an ALSS icon course and is based upon Cody’s 30-day Aboriginal Living Skills class he developed and taught for Prescott College for nearly a decade. He has a special permit from the state of Arizona allowing you unparalleled realistic hunting and gathering experiences.
 
tonym said:
The Wilderness Learning Center has it all! Great instructors, hands on training, excellent food, and outstanding Comradery!

The course is extremely well planned and executed. I find it hard to imagine a better school. Even Ron Hood endorses this school.

Imagine a week of camping with your friends, but the benefit of learning everything you need to know about Wilderness Survival in away that it sticks. I was not suprised to see guys from all over the country as well as Canada attend the course I took!

More info at www.weteachu.com
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anyone see they are going to be teaching a class in the UP. I might have to go to that. I love it up there.
 
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