Primitive Skills Workshops
Group size: 6-10
These half-day (4 hour) workshops will focus on just one or two of the primitive skills described above, and are a great way to learn a new skill and expand your awareness of nature on a shorter timeframe.
Kindling Fire (Butler School, Germantown, MD)
- Identifying and gathering materials
- Fire safety and construction
- Starting a fire with just one match or without a match at all—there are so many different fire-starting techniques!
- Starting a fire in the rain
- Using a fire for safety, tool-making, comfort, water purification, and cooking
Tools and Gear (Butler School, Germantown, MD)
- Knife skills and safety
- Carving utensils and tools like spoons, bowls, fishhooks, and fire making equipment
- Making natural cordage
- Using birch bark and other natural materials to construct containers
Getting Lost, Getting Found (Sugarloaf Mountain, Frederick, MD)
- Learning to use natural features on the landscape to travel safely cross-country
- Map and compass navigation and orienteering
- Identifying wild edibles we come across in our wanderings
- This workshop will be more strenuous than the previous two, as it will consist of a 2-4 mile hike
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Who can benefit from our wilderness skills and other adventure instruction programs:
- School groups
- Adults
- Not-for-profit groups
- Scouts
- Camps
- Religious groups
- Corporate teams
- Small businesses
- Government agencies
- Sports teams
- Fraternities and sororities
- Birthday parties
- And more