Winter Survival - Winter Skills Course '10

http://primitiveskills.com Learn basic winter survival skills during a weekend of snow shelters, making snowshoes, friction fire, and more.

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Education

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• winter survival
• winter skills
• outdoor survival
• snow shelters
• outdoor education

[Mammoth10000]

People pay to follow your training ?

[primitiveskills]

@Mammoth10000

And volunteer, and apprentice, some for multiple years. It's not so much training as it is living and growing in the skills, and striving for four season full survival skills (no knives, or dependency on gear) in comfort. Have been doing so since August, 1989. Are you interested?

[Florin888]

So, for few days spent in the wilderness, we are supposed to cut several trees having more than 10 years old... What if all the other million campers would do the same? Quite ecological and "nature friendly"...

[primitiveskills]

@Florin888 Rather than view nature as a sterile and separate entity, we cultivate the caretaker attitude prevailent in hunter-gatherer communities across the globe, selecting pioneer species whos size and spacing contribute to an overcrowded and diseased forest. T'was the view of many cultures that our species is meant to encourage biodiversity by culling out the plentiful for our survival, with seven generations into the future in mind, & encourage the rare by active gardening/mngmnt.

[primitiveskills]

This stark contrast to a model that views nature as a resource or meuseum that one passes through, poops in plastic bags in, & uses petrolium based fuels to creat a mythical "no impact" on an equally mythical "closed ecological system".  You should come to our school sometime & view the verticly stratified biodiversity & health of indicator as well as apex species. It is a direct result of living WITH the landscape instead of on it. Our whole premise is to reconnect folks with this knowledge.

[primitiveskills]

I appreciate your awareness of doing things in a "sacred manner". Thank you for bringing it up! The trees taken are Balsam Fir, a fast growing pioneer species that normally chokes out the understory. By thinning the weaker ones, we open the understory for more tree diversity as well as encourage the health of the healthier balsam fir that remain. The result is a healthy, diverse forest w/ multiple canopy development 2 include a wide variety of edible/medicinal understory plants/shrubs.

[hoosierarcher]

If you have a reflectic mylar emergency blanket and you fasten it to cover the back wall/roof of your leanto it will reflect the heat from the fire back at your side away from the fire..

[primitiveskills]

@Florin888 Good Points, all of them. W/O the healthy & diverse landscape & an established community of folks well versed in plant uses, tracking, & awareness skills & w/o the health/vigor of a dynamic lifestyle w/ healthier food than we experience in our more sedentary/nutritionally poor existence, these excercises toward reclaiming ancestral wisdom fall short of the ideal. Still, no excuse to ignore that that is being lost to conveinince/ease. Besides, it's not only empowering, it's fun.

[rycan84]

vvvvvv oathkeepers org

[TZ3z]

@guyduran, I've actually slept several winter nights in well padded and insulated lean tos I've made my self and felt warm the hole night.