The tenth and final week of the fall 2007 Earth Skills Semester Program. Join us as we eat cattails, make dolls, and have a visit from Mors Kochanski.
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Week nine of the Earth Skills Semester Program includes footage of our wilderness first aid course, a visit to Mahoosuc Guide Service's sled dog yard, weaving ash pack baskets and pulling buckskin.
This book was created for students in our yearlong bushcraft immersion program and Earth Skills Semester Programs to help them execute and document their journey into traditional bushcraft knowledge.
At the beginning of this semester course I picked up a sun oven. They’re simple to operate, use no fuel or electricity, and can be used all day whenever the sun is shining. I figured I’d try out a commercial model before building a bigger one. It’s been a great acquisition and [...]
I’m back for a day to pick up more gear. After a week in our new camp in Masardis, I’m completely in love with the location. We spent the week building permanent shelters, exploring the area, and exploring the river.
We’ve got a new mailing address and a new phone number if you want [...]
We’re off to our new base camp in Masardis, Maine tomorrow. I hope to get the internet hooked up in a few weeks, but until then I won’t be posting, answering email, or doing anything else web-related. If you need to get in touch with me, leave a message on our answering machine.
Today we pressed [...]
I’m featured along with Survivorman Les Stroud in an article titled “Getting Out Alive; Survival experts show pilots what to do when the propeller stops spinning” by Marc C. Lee. Although written for pilots who find themselves alone after ditching their airplane, it’s a good primer for most survival situations.
You can read the article [...]
I saw an ad for a college today and in the photo they had as their centerpiece was a student in a lecture hall looking toward the front and acting interested. That’s a negative for me. I remember sitting through a bunch of lectures, some great, some not, but what I took away from the [...]
I’ve been diligently at work writing up my ideas and plans for the Jack Mountain Bushcraft University, and have been getting feedback from our alumni about the process. The general plan is to take the academic components we’ve developed over ten semester programs and put them online for anyone, anywhere, to use. We’re [...]
It was a busy day yesterday. We baked some potatoes in the sun oven, baked some sourdough biscuits in the reflector oven, waterlined and shellaced a canoe, made fish spears, caught a bunch of fish with them, built a tripod for smoking them, filleted them and smoked them as the sun sank over the [...]
