Be with us on this trip into the North Maine Woods "bush" where we will set up a comfortable, dry camp.  This week is dedicated to living in the bush in a very simple and comfortable way.  Throughout the course of the week you will learn not by lecture or taking notes, but by actually doing the tasks necessary to accomplish the goal of becoming a skilled woodsman.

If you are new to camping and want to learn the "right way" to do things or if you have been camping for 40 years and want to learn how to "do things better and easier"...this is a class you should consider.

At week's end you will know:

• How to pack for a trip including how everything is packed including food and gear
• How to access camp sites and where to set up the best camp.
• How to find dry fire wood and determining how much is needed for meals. daytime activities and the night.
• How to make an outside fire and how to efficiently cook with it.
• How to make great meals in the bush like home-made biscuits, donuts as well as casserole and other meals as well.
• How to find safe drinking water and when to purify with a filter, when to boil and when it is safe to drink.
• How to find the wild food sources available including how to use edible and medicinal plants
• How to navigate in the deep woods
• How to live with the woods, the animals, and with Nature
   

The class will consist of many more topics than these but this will give you a flavor of what you will gain from this 7 day experience.  To sum it up...its beginning to understand a "bushman's life". 

ALL EQUIPMENT YOU WILL NEED WILL BE PROVIDED except for you clothing, sleeping bag and ground pad.

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*On the first and last day of the rip we will be staying at a staging point cabin before snowshoeing into the base camp.  To make the trip more enjoyable we will have a majority of the heavy gear transported to the base camp location via snowmobile.