Experience North Country

Outdoor Survival: An Introduction to Bushcraft - a weekend with Chris Bax including all meals & Tipi Accommodation, near Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire

Duration: 2 days & 2 nights

Arrange a specific date before booking or buy as a Gift Voucher enabling you to schedule a suitable weekend further down the line. Weekends currently available are:

Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th March 2012

Description:

Do you fancy yourself as a bit of a Ray Mears? Would you like to gain an insight into the many ways nature can provide us with food, warmth, shelter and clean water? Outdoors expert, Chris Bax, runs this course specifically for the novice bushcrafter and covers a range of techniques that will help you make the most of nature's resources.

You'll spend a weekend in a large area of woodland, where you will cover shelter building, foraging, firelighting, water sourcing and purification, knife skills and wild game trapping techniques. You'll cook all your meals together in an outdoor kitchen using many of the ingredients you’ve foraged from the woodland.

Cost Includes:

All meals, tools, tuition & 2 nights tipi accommodation with your group (although you are welcome to bring your own tent if you’d prefer).

Essential Information:

Gift Voucher is valid for 12 months from date of purchase (a 12 month extension can be purchased for £10 per person)

The minimum age for this course is 12 years and any under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

You will enjoy this experience as part of a small and friendly group.

About Chris Bax:

Chris Bax has been passionate about food and the great outdoors from a young age. Chris has travelled widely and has experienced life with indigenous people around the globe. His love of food led him into a career as a chef, but the outdoor life kept calling and inspired him to set up ‘Taste the Wild’, enabling him to combine his interests and pass on his enthusiasm and knowledge to others. Chris’s understanding of wild food is comprehensive and his enthusiasm infectious.