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Advanced Survival & Primitive Skills Worshops
Specialty Skills Workshops and Advanced Survival Training in Santa Cruz, CA
-1-Day thru Weeklong Classes
-Learn from America's Top Survival Instructors
-Specialty Skills You Can't Find Elsewhere!
-Small Class Sizes, Individual Instruction
Advanced Skills Training
Advanced Primitive Skills Workshops
The Adventure Out Advanced Skills workshops offer a variety of survival and indigenous skills classes in the Santa Cruz and San Francisco Bay Areas ranging from stone tools, to basket weaving, bows & arrows, moccasins, stalking & camouflage, hide tanning, and much more. These classes are taught by Adventure Out staff as well as visiting guest instructors from some of North America's most prolific primitive wilderness survival schools. Throughout the year, Adventure Out will bring experts to Northern California to run these specialty classes. See our schedule below for details about the next visiting instructor.
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Flintknapping & Stone Tools
Dates: July 7-8, Sep 29-30, 2012
Cost: $295 $250 - CLASS ON SALE!
Description: Learn the ancient art of stone tools! Humans have been creating stone tools for over 10,000 years, from arrowheads, to spear points, hide scrapers, axes, and everything in between. Understanding stone technology is an integral part of surviving in the woods. This course will cover several methods needed to make stone tools including spalling, percussion, and pressure flaking.
Instructor: Adventure Out Owner - Cliff Hodges.
Maximum Class Size: 12 People
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The Sacred Art of Bowmaking
Date: Jul 13-15, October 5-7, 2012
Cost: $595 $450 - CLASS ON SALE!
Description: Come build your very own self bow. In three days you will personally turn an Osage log into a shooting bow. During this class you will learn material selection and harvesting, take your stave to a growth ring, read the character of the grain, lay out the bow design, and tiller it perfectly.
Please note: there is a $150 material fee included in your class fee to purchase your bow stave, thus the class fee is $300, plus $150 for materials.
Instructor: Adventure Out Owner - Cliff Hodges.
Maximum Class Size: 12 People
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Arrow Building
Date: Jul 22, October 14, December 2, 2012
Cost: $195 $150 - CLASS ON SALE!
Description: Making arrowheads is just the beginning. Take the skills you learned in the Flintknapping course to the next level as we delve in to the realm of arrows. Course topics include shaft harvesting and straightening, pitch and sinew work, fletching, and halfting. This is a unique opportunity to learn arrow construction from the few people left in North America that still hunt big game with primitive arrows.
Instructor: Adventure Out Owner - Cliff Hodges.
Maximum Class Size: 12 People
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**Special Date: 2-Day Arrow Class with master hunter and bowyer Bill McConnell - Feb 11-12, 2012 ($275) - register by emailing survival@adventureout.com |
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Traps & Snares
Date: August 5, 2012
Cost: $195 $150 - CLASS ON SALE!
Description: Learn the fine art of primitive traps and snares. From trapping wild game in a survival situation, to setting human "security alarm" traps, this class will teach you to create simple, elegant, and highly functional traps and snares out of nothing more than "sticks and stones". This is information you are guaranteed to find almost nowhere else in the world.
Instructor: Adventure Out Owner - Cliff Hodges.
Maximum Class Size: 16 People
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Primitive Hide Tanning
Date: 2012 Dates TBA (please inquire if interested - classes by request)
Cost: $400
Description: Hide Tanning is an important skill to learn - especially if you plan on hunting or trapping in the wilderness. Not only do you honor a fallen animal by preserving it's hide, but the supple tanned hide can be used for many purposes from mocassins, to bags, to numerous other leather uses. This course will cover all the basic topics starting with skinning and fleshing, all the way through racking, scraping, and tanning.
Instructor: Adventure Out Owner - Cliff Hodges.
Maximum Class Size: 8 People
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If you have any questions, please email anytime - survival@adventureout.com |
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