Program Info
Posted by Tony Deis on Sep 02, 2009 in Program Info
I thought folks might find it fun to see our immersion calendar for the fall term (below). If you've been on the fence, its not to late to join us;)
To learn more about the fall term, visit The Wind Village: Wilderness Survival an Bushcraft
To learn more about gong the entire year visit 1 year of Wilderness Immersion
Or you can start out in winter term and go into Fall 2010. Visit The Water Village: Boat Building and Fine Folk Craft
and without further adieu...
Winter Village: TrackersTEAMS Fall 2009 Term Schedule
Locations...
TrackersHQ is directly across from a 140 acre wildlife refuge only 8 minutes from downtown Portland. It features a 2900 sq ft studio space with 2 other adjunct classrooms. We also have access to a high end wood working shop and metal welding and forging facilities. It is easily accessible by bike or bus. Most excursions leave from TrackersHQ in our vans, so you don't have to own a car, you can live by pedal and two wheels.
Trackers Homestead is our cabin on a private 400 acre wildlife refuge at the edge of the Mt Hood National forest. It features a pioneer orchard with 130 year old fruit trees and 2.8 acres of land dedicated to the design and restoration aspect of this course. While in class and during breaks, you find yourself on the edge of seemingly untouched wild lands with the chance to wander one of the most beautiful and epic landscapes on Earth.
Nature of the Village Overnight at the Trackers Homestead
September 6, 2009 Orientation to TrackersTEAMS Immersion
Morning Leave and camp setup
Morning Working Agreements and Methods
Afternoon Infrastructure: Locations and Gear
Evening Independent Study and Journal Methods Overview
September 7-9, 2009 Open Space Village Skills
September 10, 2009
Morning Tracking and Awareness primer day for independent study program
Afternoon Improv and theater training with the best in show biz
Evening Basketry Basic and Bark Containers (maybe)
September 11, 2009 Trillium Lake Fishing Expedition
September 12, 2009 Trip home, TrackersHQ Introduction and closing agreements
Regular Course Days
September 15, 2009
8:30am-9:00am Yoga with Melissa
9:00am-12:30pm Fire by friction: Basic to intermediate
-bow drill
-hand drill
-fire building
1:00pm-4:00pm Independent study overview and sit spots
-mapping
4:00pm-4:30pm Debrief
September 16, 2009
8:30am-2:30pm Kayak, Canoe and Umiak fishing trip to North Fork Reservoir on the Clackamas
2:30pm-4:00pm Planning the harvest pantry
-what foods for fall
-what types of preservation
-best place in TrackersHQ
-sharing practices
4:00pm-4:30pm Homework questions and check in
5:30pm-7:30pm Fishing, Wild and Local Foods Potluck
September 17, 2009
8:30am-4:30pm Shelter Building Primer at Hopkins
-location that means diverse and sustainable relationships
-shelter types: long term and short term
-preliminary construction
-collect vine maple for branch bows
-begin branch bows
Shelter and Foraging Survival Overnight at Hopkins
September 22, 2009
Morning-Afternoon Shelter Building
Evening Dinner harvest
Evening Bow drill fire (if fires are allowed on site)
Evening Dinner cooking by campfire (if fires are allowed on site)
Evening "Tracking for the Hunt" primer
-collection for dinner
-plotting your photo "hunting zone" by topo, scouting it in the dark
-definitely begin branch bows
September 23, 2009
Morning Calisthenics and long run/hike conditioning
Morning Scouting/tracking for the photo hunt
-bring camera
Morning Shelter Improvements
Afternoon Medicinal and Edible Plants of the Pacific Northwest Primer
Late Afternoon/Dusk Photo Hunting Sit Spot
-bring camera
Evening Team Bow drill fire made directly from forest materials (if fires are allowed on site)
Evening Dinner cooking by campfire (if fires are allowed on site)
Late Evening Sing for you supper
September 24, 2009
Early Early Morning Photo Hunting Sit Spot
-bring camera
Morning Calisthenics
Morning Tracking Lens Journal
Afternoon Branch bow check
Afternoon Appreciations
Afternoon Journey home
Regular Course Days
September 29, 2009
8:30am-9:00am Yoga with Melissa
9:00am-12:30pm Urban Tree Harvest
-Apples
-Acorns
-Chestnuts
1:00pm-3:00pm Harvest Processing
-Apple cider pressing and fermenting methods
-Acorn leaching
-Chestnut flour
3:00pm-4:00pm Seminar: All Hallows Eve Reading
-reading assignment given prior
4:00pm-4:30pm All Hallows Eve Scout Pit Party Planning
-press release written for webpage and mailing lists
September 30, 2009
8:30am-1:30pm Kayak, Canoe and Umiak fishing trip to Hagg Lake
1:30am-4:00pm Visit Kookoolan Farm and take a tour http://www.kookoolanfarms.com/
October 1, 2009
8:30am-9:00am Trackers Meditation: Conversations with Plants
9am-12:30pm Begin pimp bow-making with Andrew Pinger
-Branch bows
-Bow types
-theory
-various designs
-draw out your bow
-meet your stave
1pm-4pm Plant Tracking: Individual Plant Analysis, plus Teas and Decoctions
4:00pm-4:30pm Journal of the week
October 6, 2009
8:30am-9:00am Yoga with Melissa
9am-12:30pm Fall Urban Tree Harvest Continues
1pm-4:00pm Fermentation basics and intermediate: kraut and kimchi
4:00pm-4:30pm Debrief
October 7, 2009
8:30am-9am Trackers Meditation: Stealth and Shadow
9am-12:00pm Stealth Adventure Awesome
-Team logistics
1pm--4:00pm Basic Leatherworking: Begin a quiver
4:00pm-4:30pm Homework questions and check in
October 8, 2009
8:30am-9:00am Calisthenics
9am-10:30am Continue pimp bow-making with Andrew Pinger
-Intro to stave
-Begin tillering
10:30am-12:30pm Basic Flintknapping and Stone Tools with Andrew Pinger
1:00pm-3:00pm Tracking with Tony or Gabe: Mapping Oaks Bottom
3:00pm-4:00pm Wildlife Illustration and Journaling
4:00pm-4:30pm Journal of the week
Intermediate Shelter and Fire Overnight at Hopkins
October 13, 2009
Morning Shelter Switch and Improvement (now you stay in someone else's shelter)
Afternoon Fire Review
-Fire by friction: Team Bow Drill with "no-knife"'
-Various "campfire" methods
Afternoon "Tracking for the Hunt" field assessment
-observe new animal movements with focus on the rut
Evening Dinner cooking by campfire
Evening Sing for your supper
Evening "Tracking for the Hunt" dialogue
-tell the story of new animal movements
-plot new "hunting zones" by illustrated story/songline map
October 14, 2009
Early Early Morning Photo Hunting Sit Spot
-bring camera
Morning Photo hunt transitions to free for all human-hunt with foam arrows and branch bows
Morning Shelter Improvements
Afternoon Instrument making
Late Afternoon Photo Hunting Sit Spot (optional)
Evening Shelter journal
Evening Dinner cooking by campfire
Evening Theater Improv of the epic story of morning stealth hunt
October 15, 2009
Early Early Morning Photo Hunting Sit Spot II
-bring camera
Morning Find a deer
Morning Calisthenics
Afternoon Shelter Take Down
Afternoon Appreciations
Afternoon Journey home
Regular Course Days
October 20, 2009
8:30am-9:00am Yoga with Melissa
9:00am-12:00pm Fabric finding for re-purposed clothing
12:30pm-1:30pm Simple Patterning
1:30pm-4:00pm Basic Sewing Skills: Hand and machine
4:00pm-4:30pm Debrief
October 21, 2009 Long day
8:30am-9am Trackers Meditation: Simulflow
9am-12:30pm Canning and other preserving methods
1pm-3pm Glove making begins
3pm-4pm All Hallows Eve Costume and Mask Planning
4:00pm-4:30pm All Hallows Eve Scout Pit Party Planning
4:30pm-5:00pm Homework questions and check in
October 22, 2009
8:30am-9:00am Calisthenics and uphill workouts
9am-12:30pm One page business or life plan with Mike Rasmussen
1:00pm-4:00pm Tincture making: Red Cedar and Oregon Grape
4:00-4:30pm Journal of the week
October 27, 2009
8:30am-9:00am Yoga with Melissa
9am-10:30am Simple plant dyes
10:30am-12:30pm Sewing project check-in
-Gloves
-Costume and mask making
1pm-4:00pm Pickling and fermentation preservation
4:00pm-4:30pm Debrief
October 28, 2009
8:30am-9am Trackers Meditation: Prime projection
9am-1pm Kayak, umiak and canoe morning on the river
1:30pm-3:30pm Tracking with Jason: Blood Trails
3:30pm-4:00pm Homework questions and check in
4:00pm-4:30pm All Hallows Eve Scout Pit Party Planning Final Check-in
October 29, 2009
8:30am-9:00am Calisthenics
9am-11am Continue pimp bow-making with Andrew Pinger
-Bow string, backing, bending and silencers, plus other fancy stuff for you bow
11am-12:30pm Intermediate Flintknapping with Andrew Pinger
1:00pm-4:00pm Plant Tracking: Foraging Strategies
4:00-4:30pm Journal of the week
October 31, 2009
Evening All Hallows Eve Costume Party Extravaganza
November 3, 2009
8:30am-9:30am Yoga with Melissa
9:30am-11:30am Seminar: Culture and history of animal relationships with hunter-gather and horticultural communities
-reading assignment given prior
-honoring and the animal
11:30am-12:30pm Dairy ferments: Methods and practice
1pm-4:00pm Dairy ferments: Make goat cheese and yoghurt
4:00pm-4:30pm Debrief
November 4, 2009
8:30am-9:30am Travel to Trackers Homestead
9:30am-3pm Large animal butchering at Trackers Homestead
Option B 9:30pm-3:00pm Bear Tracking with Tony or Gabe at Trackers Homestead
3:00pm-3:30pm Appreciations
3:30pm-4:30pm Travel Home
November 5, 2009
8:30am-9:30am Travel to Trackers Homestead
9:30pm-3:30pm Traditional Meat Preservation at Trackers Homestead
-Corning
-Sausage
-Drying
-Pemican
-Rendering
-AND Hide racking and prep
Option B 9:30pm-3:30pm Red Fox Tracking with Tony or Gabe at Trackers Homestead
3:30pm-7pm Dinner prep and wildfoods potluck feast and celebration (long day, goes until 7pm, students welcome to overnight at Cabin)
November 10, 2009
8:30am-12:30am Smoking and curing meats continued at the Trackers Homestead
-Basic smoke house
1:00pm-4pm Nutria Trapping on Urban Farms: Lay the bike trapline by bike
4:00pm-4:30pm Debrief
November 11, 2009
8:30am-9am Trackers Meditation: Flow
9am-12pm Nutria Trapping on Urban Farms: Harvest the Nutria by bike
12:30pm-4pm Nutria Trapping on Urban Farms: Skin and butcher
4:00pm-4:30pm Homework questions and check in
5:30pm-7:30pm Nutria Feast/Wild Local Foods Potluck
November 12, 2009
8:30am-9:00am Calisthenics
9am-10:30am Sinew Bow String with Andrew Pinger
10:30am-12:30pm Bone Tools with Andrew Pinger
1pm-4:00pm Basketry Basic and Bark Containers
4:00-4:30pm Bow check-in (to be finished by next week)
Tracking and Nature Awareness Overnight at the Trackers Homestead
November 17, 2009
Morning Tracking Bear Primer
Afternoon Smoking and curing meats continued
Evening Overnight sit on Bear Trail Begins
November 18, 2009
Morning Solo Bear Tracking
Morning Bear Mapping
Afternoon Fire in all conditions
Afternoon Stealth teams into dark with finished bows and foam arrows
Afternoon Feast prep
Evening Team bow drills with stone tools by dark
Evening Feast of Giving Thanks: Smoked or steam pit turkey
Evening Theater Improv of the epic story of Bear and Turkey
November 19, 2009
Morning Bear Spots
Morning Yoga with Melissa
Afternoon Homestead Camp Clean Up
Afternoon Appreciations
Afternoon Journey home
Regular Course Days
November 24, 2009
8:30am-9:00am Yoga with Melissa
9am-12:30pm Business Planning check-in with Mike Rasmussen or Tony
1pm-3:30pm Advanced Fermentation
3:30pm-4:30pm "To Accomplish" list to welcome in the Water Village
-Gifts to the Water Village (Winter Term)
-Projects for year long students
-Skills to revisit for "Winter Welcome" overnight
November 25, 2009
8:30am-4:30pm Invisilbity: The Hall of Mirrors
-Trackers Mediation
-Day long bird language stealth game
November 26, 2009
8:30am-9:00am Calisthenics
9am-12:30pm Root Cellaring
1:00pm-4pm Advanced primitive cooking containers
4:00-4:30pm Journal of the week
Winter Welcome Overnight at the Trackers Homestead
December 1-3, 2009
Day 1 Where have we journeyed?
-Retrospective
-Theater Improv
-Show and tell
Day 2 Where are we now and where are going?
-Open Space
-Stories of the person
-Stories of the Trackers Tribe
-More skills
Final Evening Graduation of the Wind Village with gifts to the Water Village
Final Day Clean the homestead and journey home
Posted by Tony Deis on Jul 26, 2009 in Program Info
The following is a preview for the Earth Village (Spring Session). Its rounds out the story for our tandem 9 month program.
In spring we immerse ourselves in the world of plants and the realm of the birds. Everything is exploding with life. Early in the term you take your Permaculture Design Certification and in hands on projects throughout the 3-months we remake and reshape the Trackers Homestead (our cabin that sits on 3 acres of cultivated land and 400 acres of willife refuge). Harvest and preservation of spring milk and eggs folds into artisan cheesemaking, pickling and fermentation. Still, the core of the program is the new growth of spring plants. You practice nutrition through wildcrafted foods, making medicine through tinctures and gardening for sustenance crops. We even cover herbals for the farm and stable, working with livestock on the Trackers Homestead. As with all Trackers courses, the focus is on hunter-gatherer or horticultural relationships to the land, so while we cover many homesteading relationships it all dovetails into tending to "wild" garden and lands. Places of harvest that are intricately woven into a living and diverse ecology.
Our naturalist studies also take us to the treetops. We cover intensive relationships with birds and their viewpoint of the forest. Tracking reveals on a entirely new role as we learn the Language of the Birds. This is the ability to tell the movement of a sneaking deer or cougar simply from the sequence of the avian calls above. Of course we address what some may see as classic track and sign skills, along with ecological relationships.
As with all of our 3 month immersion terms our collaborative and natural learning model makes all experience levels welcome and useful. Our class discourse does not follow a coversation linear path but is instead an intricate web of eloquent conversation, allowing diverse interests and skill sets of individuals to enrich the learning community.
The fitness component for this term focuses on nutrition, strength and flexibility. Yoga is at the core of the program, while safe, accessible boxing provides a playful self defense component. Urban foraging expeditions happen by two wheels, in fact the bike is a required component of the program. We often ride by pedal power during this term.
All this and you work with cut baby animals born in March and April...
Spring Session: The Earth Village
Permaculture and horticulture training includes...
• Receive your Permaculture Design Certification intensive early
• Take it to next level, apply your certification to hands on design projects throughout the term
• Overnight at the Trackers Homestead and our 400 acre wildlife refuge
• Working with small livestock including chickens, goats, and rabbits (even bees)
• Breeding and birthing said livestock, experience super cute baby animals
• Intregration of small livestock into reenriching land and diversity
• Focus on cheese making and other traditional dairy preservation with self harvested goat's milk
• Do a traditional and homestead butchering (options for those who opt out) with traditional sausage and meat preservation
• Practice sustenance gardening in way that will really feed your village
• Learn about urban farming and market gardening culture and practices
• Tend to "wild" gardens on our 400 acres, truly reintegrating human relationships with the land
• Help design and develop several natural building projects
Wild edible and medicinal plants curriculum includes...
• Intensive spring wild plant identification and harvest
• Only harvesting by methods encouraging wild and long term sustainability
• Learn about herbal plant medicine, also apply it to livestock in the farm and stable
• Stock your medicine kit by preparing herbal teas, decoctions, tinctures, slaves, poultices, oils, syrups and honeys
• Develop your own understanding of personal nutrition from local and wild plants and other foods
• Start to stock your pantry even in spring to feed yourself and your village
• Harvest and preserving sea vegetables
• Explore the diverse history of herbal lore and medicine
Spring birding and naturalist studies includes...
• Immerse yourself in the many migratory species and their habits, learn the story of their journeys
• Train the Language of the Birds. Magically map the forest and animal movement by bird song and call.
• Train to track on any surface: even moss or rock
• Learn intensive systems awareness and mapping
• Play the Urban Hawks Role Playing Game, score points
DIY and Wilderness Survival skill building includes...
• Develop ultra-lite weight wilderness and backcountry travel abilities: the art of taking little to no gear
• Train navigation with map and compass, land, sun and stars
• Basic bicycle maintainance
• Basic Ultra-lite packing gear
Art and theater skills includes...
• Build team rapport with theater and improv training (all experience levels apply, we walk folks through any fears of public performance)
• Develop your creative skills through training professional level wildlife illustration with plant illustration and journals (all experience levels apply, we walk folks through any fears of art)
• Make traditional and DIY musical instruments. Jam with your friend (all experience levels apply, we walk folks through any fears of jamming
Teams skills include...
• Work with iterative development processes
• Develop clarity and eloquence in communication with a focus on function, not being "right or wrong"
• Learn agreement processes that are efficient, timely and functional, not long winded, boring or dramatic
• Experience the power of the "15 minute meeting"
• Structure collaborative teams that get work done well, quickly and competently
• Write a simple business plan
• Develop collaborative teaching skills as an educator, mentor and guide: especially pertinent to working in the out of doors
Yoga and body awareness training includes...
• Regular yoga training and class
• Work through fun cross training
• Become superpowered with accessible boxing exercises
• Set about urban foraging expeditions by bicycle
Take a Wilderness First Responder as an option
Please Note As we already have many of our 9 month
applications starting for fall, we'll likely only hold space for four
to six applicants for the 3 month option this September. Priority is
also given to currently accepted 9 month applicants who may see 3 or 6
months as a better fit for them.
Posted by Tony Deis on Jul 22, 2009 in Program Info
Leading up to official announcement for our 3 month option for our immersion program (August 1), we're releasing the details for the Water Village (Winter Session). Exploring the ancient history and lore of travel from the arctic and all across the seven seas your team first builds a 24 foot traditional skin on frame whaling boat called an umiak. During this you study marine navigation by ancient and modern methods, throw in a little sailing primer and then make your own traditional skin on frame sea kayak. This kayak is a boat built to your body, in the water you're part fish (or seal, whichever you prefer). We also cover wildlife ecology and tracking with survival in the rain, water, ice and snow. How do you build a lodge to take you through the days of cold and dark. And winter becomes the time for refining craft. We make our own outdoor garb that's not only functional for the pacific Northwest but in true Trackers style its also fashionable as though we stepped from 1000 years of ice. Finally, we retrain how our own bodies move through Taoist martial arts such as Tai chi and Qigong. Winter is the the time to forget and remember ourselves again.
Winter Session: The Water Village
Boat building apprenticeship includes...
• Step into the seafaring story and history of indigenous people
• Study and apply principles of traditional boat design
• Take a sailing primer
• Build a team umiak
• Train marine navigation: both ancient and modern methods
• Make your own kayak to fit your own body
• Make your own paddle
• Learn the safety principles for you kayak, including wet exits, rescues and definitely rolls
Winter and snow survival and tracking includes...
• Stay comfortable in winter weather, appreciate the winter landscape
• Build snow shelters
• Craft DIY clothing/functional fashion for winter rain and snow
• Trap invasive species for the winter
• Immerse yourself in awareness of winter ecology and tracking
• Make your own handcrafted traditional shoes and snow shoes (snow shoes optional project)
• Train intensive ecology mapping skills
Harvesting activities include...
• Go fishing with your team, gut and eat fish
• Harvest and preservation of wild roots and tubers
• Make fun beverages of fermentation
• Learn to identify wild winter plants
• Practice responsible harvesting and propagation, including healthy winter pruning
• Do a traditional and homestead butchering (options for those who opt out) with traditional sausage and meat preservatio
Art and theater skills include...
• Build team rapport with theater and improv training (all experience
levels apply, we walk folks through any fears of public performance)
• Develop your creative skills through training professional level
wildlife illustration and landscape painting (all experience levels apply, we walk folks
through any fears of art)
• Make traditional and DIY musical instruments. Jam with your
friend (all experience levels apply, we walk folks through any fears of
jamming
Teams skills include...
• Work with iterative development processes
• Develop clarity and eloquence in communication with a focus on function, not being "right or wrong"
• Learn agreement processes that are efficient, timely and functional, not long winded, boring or dramatic
• Experience the power of the "15 minute meeting"
• Structure collaborative teams that get work done well, quickly and competently
• Write a simple business plan
Taoist martial arts
• Pratice Tai chi and Qigong
• Condition cold and extreme weather for all levels, feel warm in the cold (we meet you where you're at)
• Train strength conditioning for all levels (we meet you where you are at)
Plus take a Wilderness First Responder as an option
Posted by Tony Deis on Jul 14, 2009 in Program Info
We have some more tidbits about our Fall rollout our 3 month seasonal program (full launch in January 2010).
Students now have the opportunity to take 3 months, 6 months, 9 months or 1 full year. The goal is to offer flexibility to people such as working professionals, parents and more; encouraging even more diversity in the village. Similar to a martial arts class, the sessions are structured so varying degrees of experience enhance the collaborative learning environment.
As always, class time is Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. With one 3-day overnight a month and one week overnight a season. The teaser below is for the Fall session. Next week we'll talk about the Winter Session: The Water Village (aka, build a lot of boats).
Fall Session: The Wind Village September 2009-December 2009
In the Wind Village we focus on team skills, naturalist studies, the basics of survival, the bounty of the harvest and the arts of stealth and invisibility.
Tracking, ecology and naturalist studies include...
• Track animal and human tracks and sign with finely tuned hyper sensory awareness
• Learn intensive systems awareness and mapping
• Train navigation with map and compass, land, sun and stars
• Track and trail over challenging terrain
• Develop familiarity of geology, weather and other earth sciences
• Study local birds and their language, mapping the forest and animal movement by bird song
• Finely tune your hyper sensory awareness
Teams skills include...
• Work with iterative development processes
• Develop clarity and eloquence in communication with a focus on function, not being "right or wrong"
• Learn agreement processes that are efficient, timely and functional, not long winded, boring or dramatic
• Experience the power of the "15 minute meeting"
• Structure collaborative teams that get work done well, quickly and competently
• Write a simple business plan
Survival, primitive skills and bushcraft apprenticeship include...
• Make a handmade bow and arrow set with leather quiver
• Learn basic to advanced survival shelters. Make them, sleep in them.
• Flintknap obsidian arrowheads and knives and work with other stone tools
• Train intensive fire methods: by friction and for all weather conditions
• Cover basic basket making and other wildcrafting arts
• Look awesome in the woods, work on other textile and leather work as DIY and post civ fashion with repurposed fabric
• Refine various methods of water treatment
• Cover outdoor and primitive camp logistics
• Learn basic wild edible plants
• Get the basics of primitive trapping methods
• Helping local organic urban farmers reduce invasive nutria populations, run a legal urban trapline by bike (we will eat nutria)
Art and theater skills include...
• Build team rapport with theater and improv training (all experience levels apply, we walk folks through any fears of public performance)
• Develop your creative skills through training professional level wildlife illustration (all experience levels apply, we walk folks through any fears of art)
• Make traditional and DIY musical instruments. Jam with your friend (all experience levels apply, we walk folks through any fears of jamming)
Harvesting activities include...
• Go fishing with your team, gut and eat fish
• Learn and stock your own larder by canning, drying, pickling and other preservation methods
• Sojourn on urban fruit harvests during the "season"
• Make wine or cider and practice other methods of fermentation
• Learn to identify and harvest fall edible and medicinal plants
• Practice responsible harvesting and propagation
• Do a traditional and homestead butchering (options for those who opt out) with traditional sausage and meat preservation
Stealth skills, martial arts and conditioning includes...
• Cross train intensively by bike, path and boat
• Cover natural and shadow camouflage
• Train wilderness and urban techniques of silent and flow movement for invisibility to see more wildlife
• Experience the "hall of mirrors"
• Train animal forms, movement and martial art for healthy and efficient forest travel
• Develop your "spidey" sense
• Communicate by body language and non-verbal signals with wildlife to lower disturbance in any setting
• Train with martial arts play
• Throw swords with your team
Please Note As we already have many of our 9 month applications starting for fall, we'll likely only hold space for four to six applicants for the 3 month option this September. Priority is also given to currently accepted 9 month applicants who may see 3 or 6 months as a better fit for them.
Posted by Tony Deis on May 05, 2009 in Program Info
A roundup for our last month of taster days before the season ends. We would love to have both old and new friends in the community join us.
May 16, 9am-5pm
Taster Day Spend a day with to learn more about the TrackersTEAMS immersion program: build fires, throw swords (safely, mostly), do more primitive skills and form an unforgettable team.
RSVP or learn more here
May 17, 9am-5pm
Bonus Round: Taster Alumni Day You've been to a TrackersTEAMS taster day. You know what it's like. Imagine that squared, exponential and again but even more. Ahem, the real purpose of of our "Alumni Day" is not make a "bigger and better" taster. The real purpose is to honor the community we've created through the taster days over the years. Of course we will cover more advance skills such as stone arrowhead making, fermenting foods and brewing and more sword throwing silliness. We may even get the boat in the water and give people another go at the bow drill if the timing is right.
May 17, 6:30pm-10pm**
Wild & local foods potluck mixer After a day of learning and working Trackers hosts a wild/local foods potluck and mixer. There we will talk more about the live action, 3-day scout game we want to host for late summer. Come prepared with your team and bring a local or wild food for the potluck. Also, dress your version of "to the neighs".
RSVP or learn more about the alumni day
**bring a potluck dish of either a local or wild food
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