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
