The bushcraft way is a rewarding path that we’ll explore in this course. Where the survivalist learns to avoid or endure a wilderness emergency, the bushwalker strives to flourish in the landscape using traditional knowledge and techniques. This two-day immersion experience will go beyond northern wilderness survival by incorporating longer-term bush skills like camp craft, ethnobotany, subsistence methods and natural crafting. By the course end, we will come to understand that prowess with our outdoor skills is important, but so is the mindset of humility and thankfulness that has allowed our kind to live in the bush for most of our history. Participants may choose to spend the evening in the field in a primitive shelter, though this is entirely optional. It is strongly suggested that those wishing to enroll in this workshop first take Staying Alive in the Woods: Introduction to Northern Wilderness Survival.