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Autumn is a glorious month for exploring arctic bushcraft and survival. If you are lucky, the fells will not only be ablaze with autumn colours but, more importantly, they will be full of berries and mushrooms to forage.
- Modelled on Survival Guild Finland's summer course
- Forage autumn berries & mushrooms
- Shelter-building, fire-making, fishing & trapping
- Wilderness first-aid & navigation
The course
Our Autumn Skills School follows a similar format to Finland's Survival Guild's Summer Course (their pre-requisite for the winter course). After a preparatory theory day covering wilderness navigation and a chance to make your own back-packs, participants are stripped of most personal belongings and head into the wilderness with minimal clothing, tools and equipment.
The Survival Guild Course provides no food beyond what is hunted, fished or foraged. Here, with more emphasis on skill acquisition, we keep your energy and concentration higher: if you don't manage to catch a fish, we'll provide one and still teach you how to prepare it.
What you'll learn
By the end of your week, you will feel comfortable building a variety of quick shelters and using a variety of fire-making techniques. You will have tried to fish and to set simple traps, to practice basic wilderness first-aid and navigation, and you will know how to identify a wide range of berries, mushrooms and fauna.
General Information
Programme Duration: 7 days including 2 nights in the farm, 3 nights in nature and the final night in a local family-run hotel. Availability: Late August / September. Price: €1200.
