Advanced Wilderness Awakening - 6 day course

A continuation of our five day Wilderness Awakening, this course takes you several steps further towards your aim of self sufficiency in the wilderness.  Six days in the woods builiding on the skills you have already learnt whilst learning some important new ones.

Your first day will be spent building a home for the week, setting traps and learning about the local, seasonal foraging opportunities.  Following on from the Wilderness Awakening, your cooking fire must be lit on day one using the bow drill and natural tinder.  Then follows five days of advanced bushcraft, working flint to make tools and weapons, large game preparation, preserving meat in the wild, primitive cooking techniques, advanced carving and axe work, hide working and making buckskin, weaving willow and other hedgerow materials to make baskets and fishtraps.  You will be expected to supplement the food provided with daily foraged and caught fare providing an excellent opportunity to develop those skills in the right environment and with the right guidance.

This course when combined with the WIlderness Awakening gives you a wealth of practical experience and the knowledge to provide everything you need from the natural world.

This is an advanced course requiring hard work from the outset and experience of living and working outdoors therefore we insist that you must have already completed our five day Wilderness Awakening or a similar course of the same duration and content with a reputable company.

During the six days you will...

• Prepare your camp and build a comfortable semi permanent shelter to live in
• Trap animals for food
• Forage from the surrounding countryside to supplement your rations
• Process wild plants for food
• Prepare large and small wild game
• Preserve wild meat
• Cook over a campfire using primitive techniques
• Work flint to make sharp tools
• Improvise strong cordage and bindings from natural materials
• Weave a fish trap from willow using basketry techniques
• Carve wooden bowls and utensils with axe and knife
• Tan a deer hide using natural resources
• Learn how to make bags, pouches and other buckskin and rawhide products
• Eat & drink until you pop during the final feast!

'Thanks Joe, I had a brilliant time on the course.  Yourself and Glenn did a great job and I'm really appreciative of all the effort you both put in to make it such a special and successful week.' - Fiona

Price per person - £515

The course assembles the evening of the first day for the initial safety briefing at 7pm.
The course will finish at approximately 10am on the final day.

(By the way - you can save a few quid by booking our Wilderness Awakening course and the Advanced Wilderness Awakening course at the same time and only pay £895.)

Upcoming Dates

6th - 12th August 2010 (Mid Devon)

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