Traditional Skills Camp

with Ian Sanderson

Come camp with us! Enjoy the last of the camping season and spend a weekend in the beautiful mountains above Boulder getting in touch with natural world.  In this weekend immersion, you’ll learn to remember how to move in nature, to read the landscape, and to change your perception to be able to read a story in human and animal tracks.  This fun and powerful weekend will include:

Belonging and Connection: Begin to feel just how connected we are with the rest of the natural world.

Pattern Recognition
Solo Sit

Campcraft: Learn how to create a place with a group of friends and family that is safe and efficient, yet is comforting and feels like home

Tent, campfire, kitchen, and activity site selection and preparation (Home design for the outdoors!)
Fire reflectors (small fires CAN warm large groups!)

Natural Awareness and Movement: Learn how to move in harmony with the landscape and expand your awareness.

Foxwalking, or “Shizen on the Move”
“Eyes of the Tracker” and other sense enhancing skills
Rabbit Stick

The Art and Science of Tracking:  Your eyes will be opened to previously unseen worlds…NEVER look at the ground the same way again.

Tracking Fundamentals
10 Steps—find your partner’s footprints
Group Detective Work – “What happened here?”
Animal families and gaits
Animal tracking (if we’re paying attention…)

Fire-Making*: We’ve likely all felt the immediate sense of comfort and connection that comes from a campfire. Allow for the feeling of more comfort and connection by learning to make your fires more efficient and safer…possibly without the aid of matches or a lighter…

Fuel gathering and fuel types
One-match fires
Fire by Friction: Bow Drills and Hand Drills

Natural Camouflage: Stealth taken to the next level. We will learn to camouflage not just our bodies, but our minds. Learn to hide in plain sight. Invisibility is possible.

Scent camouflage- quiet minds and smoke baths
Dust and Dapple- fundamentals of physical camouflage
Camouflage…The Game

 The Philosophy of Ten Thousand Changes: Preparedness and Proper Relationship with the Natural World

Survival priorities
Shelter building
Awareness and Gratitude

* Dependent on fire ban status 

Program runs from 1pm on Friday September 13 to 3pm on Sunday, September 15.

All participants will receive their own fire-making kit and natural movement accessories. Participants are responsible for bringing their own food and camping supplies.  Camping equipment is available for rent if needed.  Please contact us for more information or if you have any other questions. 

Registration closes September 8th! 

Payment Plan Option

You can pay for this program in three installments.  Click here to register with the payment plan.