Western North Carolina's Premier Wilderness Training Experts!
We offer an on-going club for kids which runs every other weekend for two to three hours. We usually take this group out on small hikes and explore the natural world. We teach mini-workshops on edible plants, shooting bows, tracking, building fires and collecting tinder, cordage, natural pottery and much more. These are offered free as an introduction to the skills and the age group is generally 4-12. Please contact us for additional information. This takes place around Boone, NC.
This is an exciting new series of classes and workshops we are facilitating in order to bridge the gap between native living skills and the utilization of these skills and techniques into a modern, community based approach. These workshops are going to incorporate how to create sustainable homesteads and small scale communities. Stay tuned for additional information about these exciting new classes.
We travel extensively to provide educational experiences for individuals and groups. These classes are designed with the needs and desires of the group in mind with who we are teaching. Examples of some previous classes include edible and medicinal plant workshops, building a sweat lodge, tracking basics, building and shooting bows, working with stone (flint knapping), naturalist studies, ecologty, bird language, and native based First Ceremony classes, fire by friction techniques and many others. We have conducted classes for all group sizes and age groups. Examples include college students, middle school students, scout troops, kindergarten groups, adults and families.
One Day Skills on the Basic 4- A one day intensive with one of our skilled instructior
Our Overnight classes are usually held at our Lost Cove site in Avery County, NC. This is a primitive campsite with primitive latrines, stream water only, rugged hills and only accessible by a four wheel drive vehicle. We usually carpool to a drop off location and leave most vehicles there are continue in with the 4x4 vehicles.