Introduction to Primitive Skills

Our Intro to Primitive Skills offers a one-day, crash course in all things primitive.

By the end of the day, you’ll have made a stone knife blade, attached it to a handle using pitch & hand-made cordage, and fashioned a sheath to hold it on your belt.  You’ll also receive a private tour and discussion of our on-site primitive shelters – and what it’s like to live in them.

Spend this hands-on day learning the basics of the primitive world.

What You’ll Learn In This Course

• Basic Stone Tools
  • Fracture planes
  • Pressure flaking
  • Making blades
  • Retouch
• Cordage
  • Basic reverse wrap
  • Splicing & Loops
  • Selecting & Processing plants for cordage
• Pitch Glue
  • Identifying sources and harvesting pitch
  • The perfect recipe make Nature’s epoxy!
• Hafting
  • Attaching shafts/handles to primitive tools
• Weaving:  Containers/Sheath
  • Make a twined sheath for your knife!
• Primitive Life & Shelters – tour the shelters at our field site and learn about living life in the wild – totally primitively
• Friction Fire/Bow Drill (Time/Conditions permitting)

Location:  Gone Feral’s Field School – North of Ward, Colorado – Local driving directions provided upon registration.

Please bring:

• Clothing/Footwear appropriate to the weather at 9500′ the weekend of our course
• At least 2 liters of water
• Lunch and snacks for the day

2019 Course Date

• June 1, 9am to ~4pm

Price:  $105