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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 intructors from some of North America's most profilic 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.

Upcoming Workshops:

	Sweatlodge & Ceremonial Fire Date: April 22-24, 2008 Cost: $600 Description: Humankind has a unique relationship with the sweat - a universal healing and meditation tool gifted to and used by so many diverse cultures worldwide. Enjoy constructing a lodge and learning to pour while participating in multiple sweats during the course. Instructor: Join us this Spring to welcome Bill MConnell - America's most reknowned primitive skills instructor and founder of the Past Skills Wilderness School in Bozeman, MT. Bill is one of the most accomplished traditional bow hunters alive today who has taught thousands of people the sacred hunting arts of our ancestors. Also an expert tracker and naturalist, Bill's course offerings are diverse and wholly unique. Maximum Class Size: 12 People
	Nature Journaling & Track Drawing Date: April 25-27, 2008 Cost: $500 Description: So much of what we do as naturalists and trackers relies upon direct observation and our ability to journal accurately what we have witnessed. Learning to draw and journal our field studies precisely not only enables us to record the natural world, but teaches us to see. Instructor: Bill McConnell - Past Skills Wilderness School, Bozeman, MT Maximum Class Size: 12 People
	Flintknapping & Stone Tools Date: August 22-24, 2008 Cost: $500 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. You will also receive your very own Flintknapping toolkit to take home and start your knapping career ($65 value). Instructor: Adventure Out Owner - Cliff Hodges. Maximum Class Size: 10 People
	Arrow Building Date: September 21, 2008 Cost: $200 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: 10 People
	Primitive Hide Tanning Date: 2008 Dates TBA (4 Day Course) Cost: $600 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
	Traps & Snares Date: December 6-7, 2008 Cost: $300 Description: Learn the fine art of primitive traps and snares. From trapping wild game in a survival situation, to setting human "security alarm" 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
	The Sacred Art of Bowmaking Date: 2008 Dates TBA Cost: $750 Description: Come build your very own self bow. In four 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. Instructor: Bill McConnell - Past Skills Wilderness School, Bozeman, MT Maximum Class Size: 8 People
If you have any questions, please call or email anytime - survival@adventureout.com - 800-509-3954 (Toll Free)