Courses

Dates: May 12-13 2018
Location: Kearney
BUSHCRAFT ONE -Introduction
Length: 2 days, 1 night
In this course, you will learn the fundamentals skills for traveling and camping in the backcountry . We will provide you with a solid foundation in basic wilderness skills.
Curriculum will include:
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Gear selection:
We will show you what we carry, in our kit and help you decide what you need for your chosen pursuit
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Basic Firecraft:
learn to light fires in all conditions using modern technology
you with a solid foundation in basic wilderness skills.
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Water Procurement:
Where to find water and how to make it safe.
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Basic Shelter set up:
Learn how to set up a basic emergency shelter.
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Basic Knot Tying:
Learn the basic knots that will help you string a tarp or hang a bear bag.
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Basic Knife and Axe Workshop:
Safe use of sharp objects to make your wilderness experience more enjoyable.
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Tree and Plant Identification:
Learn to recognise and utilize 5 useful species
Cost: $150
Dates: June 22-24 2018
BUSHCRAFT TWO - Improvisation
Length: 3 days, 2 nights
Learn to do more with less and experience a more traditional approach to bushcraft and outdoor living. Create comfort and enjoyment with what Nature provides, using long-established knowledge, skills and kit.
Curriculum will include:
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Primitive Firecraft:
From flint and steel to bow drills: you will learn the time tested ways of starting fire without matches.
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Advanced Shelter Building:
Options for different shelters and considerations will be discussed and put to use in construction of a group shelter.
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Knife and Axe Workshop:
Learn proper maintenance and how to keep that edge nice and sharp.
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Camp Comfort Construction:
From chair construction to pot hooks, learn to make your base camp more comfortable.
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Natural Cordage Lesson:
Learn the techniques involved in cord making and discuss the plants available in the area.
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Basic Gear improvisation:
Learn to improvise when gear breaks or you are stranded without important gear
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Tree and Plant Identification:
Learn to recognise and utilize 5 additional useful species.
Cost: $250
BUSHCRAFT THREE - Hunter gatherer
Length: 3 days, 2 nights
Acquire the taste of self-sufficiency and get to know it’s challenges. Provide a meal or extend your stay in a wild place by means of fishing, trapping, gathering, hunting and preserving with both modern or tradition tools and skill.
Curriculum will include:
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Trapping:
learn from a liscensed trapper about ethical and productive ways to trap food. Improvise traps from natural materials
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Hunting:
learn proper ethical and safe ways of firearm hunting, improvise a bow capable of getting protein
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Gathering:
learn what you can eat in the wilderness.
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Fishing:
learn survival based techniques to get you that fish when its necessary
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Preservation:
see how to turn that big catch into a longer term food source. We will build and operate a traditional smoker
Cost: $250

Dates: Sept 2018
BUSHCRAFT FOUR - Journeyman Expedition
Length: 7 days, 6 nights
Bring it all together on a week-long wilderness living skills adventure. Experience life on the trail, employ your bushcraft skills, explore your surroundings, fish, hunt, forage and travel, out on the land.
Cost: TBD
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FIRST AID COURSES
Standard & Emergency First Aid, CPR/AED.
This two day modular course provides comprehensive first aid & CPR/AED training, covering life-saving skills like the recognition and treatment of airway, breathing, and cardiovascular emergencies, and teaches how to perform CPR and work with AED’s. Furthermore, students will learn to manage a casualty who’s choking, bleeding, fainting, has a seizure or diabetic emergency, and prevent and/or treat shock, just to name a few topics. Other modules will cover fractures, burns, minor wound and special injuries care, multiple casualties, environmental emergencies, etc. Full certification course.
Cost: $135
First aid, CPR/AED
This one day course is a condensed version of the previously mentioned course, prioritizing on the most life-threatening occurrences and CPR/AED skills. This course can be a certification course in itself for CPR/AED, or a recertification of the 3 year valid certificate received upon successful completion of the above 2 day course.
Cost: $90
Dates: TBD
Dates: TBD