September foundation course
This weekend we ran our september foundation course, fortunately the weather stayed dry and a good time was had by all.
The enthusiastic students learned about primitive stone tools, knife skills, woodcarving, shelter craft, tracking, navigation, traps and snares, firelighting techniques and much more over the two days whilst drinking us completely out of tea!
As usual the students we were accompanied by the resident tawny owls during their evenings which were spent sharing the warmth of their campfires toasting marshmallows and carving spoons from hazel. Congratulations to Jim who won the spoon-making competition, I am sure there is a small business there one day Jim! Students also had a go at making soda can whistles, lanterns and stoves from re-cycled materials.
Most pleasing for me was the student's successful attempts at stone tool making and fire by friction with the Fire-bow. All students successfully produced a number of pebble tools and blades from river cobbles which were used to great effect preparing fish for their lunch. The firebow is a difficult technique to master involving a lot of co-ordination and stamina but those who kept at it were rewarded with the flickering flames of success!
A few students took home standing dead wood from willow and field maple to make their own sets, so no doubt they will soon master the technique for themselves. I doubt that they will ever look at a river pebble the same way either!
Our thanks to the students Jim, Peter, Gary, Ben, Adrian , Fiona, Tony, Ross, Tim, James, Brian and Ronnie for their particiaption in all the course activities.
Hopefully we have inspired them to carry on with their bushcraft and no doubt we will see one or two around the campfire again soon.
See you
Andrew
The enthusiastic students learned about primitive stone tools, knife skills, woodcarving, shelter craft, tracking, navigation, traps and snares, firelighting techniques and much more over the two days whilst drinking us completely out of tea!
As usual the students we were accompanied by the resident tawny owls during their evenings which were spent sharing the warmth of their campfires toasting marshmallows and carving spoons from hazel. Congratulations to Jim who won the spoon-making competition, I am sure there is a small business there one day Jim! Students also had a go at making soda can whistles, lanterns and stoves from re-cycled materials.
Most pleasing for me was the student's successful attempts at stone tool making and fire by friction with the Fire-bow. All students successfully produced a number of pebble tools and blades from river cobbles which were used to great effect preparing fish for their lunch. The firebow is a difficult technique to master involving a lot of co-ordination and stamina but those who kept at it were rewarded with the flickering flames of success!
A few students took home standing dead wood from willow and field maple to make their own sets, so no doubt they will soon master the technique for themselves. I doubt that they will ever look at a river pebble the same way either!
Our thanks to the students Jim, Peter, Gary, Ben, Adrian , Fiona, Tony, Ross, Tim, James, Brian and Ronnie for their particiaption in all the course activities.
Hopefully we have inspired them to carry on with their bushcraft and no doubt we will see one or two around the campfire again soon.
See you
Andrew
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