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Course Overview: Ancient Skills For Modern Families

Spend an amazing weekend with your loved ones on this all ages family event. Spend a weekend learning the ancient skills that were necessary for daily life to primitive man. We learn to drive a car, use a computer, pay our bills... they learned to hunt and gather, form tools and weapons from their environment, and use critical thinking to solve the problems of daily primitive living. Give your family a new level of confidence in their outdoor skills; take your survival skills to the next level and learn what it truly takes to live off of the land!

*Tools & Weapons: Students will be given a full stone tool forming course (knapping) and make a knife and a spear point from stone, as well as mount them to their wooden handles/shafts.

*Foraging: Learn to identify, harvest, and use wild plants and other natural materials.  Students will produce; edible, medicinal, and utility items such as rope(you will learn to weave rope from plant fibers) directly from wild materials they harvest.

*Shelter: Learn to make a weatherproof shelter from natural forest materials

*Fire making: Learn to make a fire with sticks (friction fire), as well as the “flint and steel” methods. Learn to identify, harvest, and process the best natural fire tinders in your environment.

*Food: Learn to make primitive traps for harvesting wild game

*Cooking: Learn to cook without pots/pans over an open fire

What To Bring

Pocket Knife (Mora fixed blades, or victorinox swiss knife/ leatherman-both with saw feature-is recommended)

Protective Eyewear or Sunglasses for Stone Knapping

Sleeping Gear (Tent, sleeping bag, etc)

There are showers and bathrooms on site

There is a campfire ring for the evening

There is a fishing lake next door to camp. If you bring your fishing license you can fish it.

Any foodstuffs you may require- We recommend Mountain House Backpacker Meals and plenty of snacks. Small backpacker/camp stoves can easily prepare these meals

Course is Rain or Shine- Dress Appropriately, long pants and closed toed footwear only during training periods

Logistics

Price

$200 Per Person

(This product is specially priced for families!)

2024 Dates

May 18-19 (full)

August 17-18 (full)

2025 Dates

may 17-18

9am Day 1 - 3pm Day 2

Upon booking you will automatically receive a receipt. This receipt contains a link download all of your course attendance info, including gear requirements, driving directions, and more.

Location

Camp La Verne

41954 Jenks Lake Rd W,

Angelus Oaks, CA 92305

There is a lake stocked with fish immediately adjacent to camp. You are welcome to fish with a valid license.

Get your fishing licenses here

We are on over 200 acres in the Nation Forest with a running spring. There is ample room for camping. Feel free to bring any type of camp set up you wish.

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