Way of the KnifeWay of the Knife
Back in 2025 June 00 to July 00 2025 7 Day, Overnight Program Craft your own knife to use at camp and bring home!! Harvest and work wood to fit your hand and form a sheath to carry it on your belt. Often these tools are taken for granted, but with a little skill and knowledge you will gain an appreciation for this ancient tool. Learn your knife’s many uses and capacities in and around base camp, and put these practices to use when we build our bush camp. The program culminates with a night in our newly built camp listening to the sounds of the forest. Come join us for this adventurous week of exploring the woods and streams, fishing with hand-made spears, building fires, and so much more. Ages: 10-13 Cost: $715 |
Harvesting bark for cooking containers and canteens.
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The BasicJuly 00 to July 00 2025 21 Day, Overnight Program
During this course, staff and students will live in a primitive camp with no running water or electricity. Tents will help to keep us warm and dry when we are not staying in student-made primitive shelters. We will learn to make fires with bow and drill which will aid us in making eating utensils as well as providing warmth while we listen to stories and work on projects around the fire. The days are filled with lessons on numerous skills required for wilderness living: collecting and purifying water, identifying wild edible plants, learning camouflage, stalking and hunting techniques, making fire, constructing shelter and much more. But fun is also an important element! Each morning and afternoon we will spend time at the pond or stream, working on the balance beam or just swimming around. As the program progresses and our skills increase, we will look at the forest by night, listening for coyotes and owls as we move through the moonlit landscape. We may even stalk deer as they graze in the fields under the cover of night. Then, the three weeks of learning culminate in a twenty-four hour solo, marking the beginning of the transition to adulthood. Ages: 11-15 Cost: $1960 |
Twenty-four hours without sight...
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Advanced Scout
Please inquire - generally invitation only. 21 Day, Overnight Program This three week advanced program is open to graduates of the Scout Course (or a comparable program) who have practiced their skills at home and demonstrated a high level of proficiency. This course will be physically demanding and will require complete commitment to learning the lessons, meeting the challenges, and drawing on one’s inner strength in order to succeed in attaining personal goals. New and old skills will be perfected and put into realistic, survival contexts to help us understand their place in true wilderness living. A strong emphasis is put on skills of invisibility, moving at night, and stalking. Due to the specialized nature of this program it is only run every other season. Ages 14-18 Cost: $2,000 |
Wild Craft
Back in 2025! July 00 – July 00 2024 14 Day, Overnight Program This course is a two week advanced skills intensive open to graduates of the Basic course. Making bows, projectile points, arrows, primitive pottery, traps, stone lamps, camp amenities and various shelters are among some of the skills covered in this program. Hide tanning and advanced fire making techniques are included as well. Participants will also spend time sign tracking, stalking and occasionally venturing out at night. Ages: 14-18 Cost: $1550 * Register and pay in full by May 1st to receive discount. |