Wilderness Skills Classes

I teach specialized classes in Traditional Bushcraft & Wilderness Skills to individuals, groups, and at organized gatherings across the western USA. These are not weekend hobby courses — they are grounded in anthropological knowledge, practical field experience, and deep respect for the ancestral skills that sustained humanity for millennia.

Flintknapping & Basic Stone Tools

Learn the ancient art of shaping stone into functional tools and projectile points. Covers raw material selection, percussion and pressure flaking techniques, and the production of usable cutting and scraping tools from locally available stone.

Wild Game Skin Care, Preparation & Tanning

From fresh hide to finished buckskin — learn traditional brain-tanning methods for processing deer, elk, moose, and caribou skins. Covers fleshing, braining, wringing, softening, and smoking using ancestral techniques.

Wild Game Field Dressing & Animal Butchering

Comprehensive instruction in field dressing, skinning, quartering, and butchering wild game animals. Learn efficient techniques for processing meat in the field and at home.

Bushcraft Game Meat and Fish Preservation

Traditional methods of preserving wild game and fish without refrigeration — including drying, smoking, making pemmican, and other techniques used by indigenous peoples for millennia.

Mobile Backpack Big Game Hunting: 101

An introduction to lightweight, mobile backcountry big game hunting. Covers gear selection, route planning, glassing, stalking, and field processing for the solo or small-party hunter operating far from roads.

Building & Hunting with Primitive Weapons

Construct and learn to use primitive hunting weapons including atlatls, throwing sticks, simple bows, and stone-tipped projectiles. Combines craft skills with hunting technique and the anthropology of human predation.