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Greetings,

Thank you for your interest in guiding for Natural Leaders!

The field of wilderness survival and primitive skills is inexhaustible - you could spend many lifetimes honing your skills in any of its myriad aspects.

However, for the purposes of our program, a good practical grasp of certain basics skills will go a long way toward giving you the confidence and ability to protect the safety of students and provide a valuable learning experience. 

When you, and your students, learn these fundamentals, it should really open up the world - reducing fear, and enabling you to explore and enjoy the outdoors to a much greater extent than before.

Here is a list of topics to explore on this website to give you a head start. 

Remember, watching the videos and reading the material is a good first step, but only by actually messing around with the skills, will you develop proficiency.

https://www.naturalleaders.com/learn.html 
  • Safety page
    • Learn the knife safety rules
    • Understand about widow-makers:
      • Exercise 1 - Find 3 widowmakers when you are out on a hike.  Look for rotten or suspended branches on trees, and also standing dead trees that look ready to fall over.
      • Exercise 2: Identify 3 large tulip poplar trees and see if you can find some widow-makers on them.
    • Yellow-jackets and bald-faced hornets
  • Ticks  
  • 1-match fire - practice a few times, how fast can you do it?  
  • Exercise: find and identify
    • red cedar
    • spicebush
    • mountain laurel
    • red maple
    • river birch
  • Tarps - practice finding a good location and pitching a tarp.
  • Knots - clove hitch, bowline, taut-line
  • Tinder - make a tinder bundle out of tulip poplar bark.  Light it with a ferro rod if you have one.
  • Survival pottery - see if you can find some wild clays, make some small test pots, dry and fire them.
  • Survival shelter - build a small survival shelter.  How long does it take?  What challenges did you encounter.
  • Cordage - make some cordage out of grass or other fibers (you might also search Youtube for more, better videos on making it).
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