2013/14 Classes

LIVING WILD SCHEDULE 



We are running a series of 7-day Intensive classes and weekend classes throughout the year.

Custom classes are also available.

To reserve class space send $100 check or money order to:

 Lynx Vilden P.O Box 1325, Twisp, WA 98856

For more information email lynxvilden (at) gmail.com 

Classes include two meals per day and all materials supplied unless otherwise stated.
Bring tent, sleeping bag and clothes suitable for seasonal conditions,  
(further gear list  with registration.)
A $100 non-refundable deposit will reserve a space in the class, class space is limited so early registration is recommended.

The Basic Skills Class is designed especially for beginners, though more skilled participants can also gain a lot from a class that focuses on stone tool use. Other classes demand some prior experience with crafting and outdoor living.

All classes are held on private land.

FALL SCHEDULE 2013

BASIC SKILLS $600
September 22-28



Fire by friction,

Cordage from plant and animal fibers,

Working stone, bone and wood into basic tools; simple knives, awls, needles.

Glues and bindings,

Burn bowls and utensils,

Cooking on an open fire.

Shelter building,

Plants for food and utility,

Deer leg processing.
 

SASKATOON CIRCLE GATHERING
September 28- October 4
www.saskatooncircle.com  for details





HORSES IN DRAFT $200

November 8-10 (Fri 6.00pm- Sun 4.00pm)

Learn how to harness and work with small draft horses: Chaco and Christy.

Logging and driving single horse.

Make your own halters and lead rope.

Bareback riding.

Packing.

Lots of fun with sweet, well-trained animals.

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BOW AND ARROW MAKING $600

(plus stave purchase)

November 15-21 

Make a hunting quality 40+lb wooden self bow from seasoned staves.


Learn how to select and harvest shoots for arrows.
Bone and stone hunting points.
Blunt target tips from rawhide.

Ideal for those who have some wood working experience.

Class size limited to 6 students

WINTER  INTERNSHIPS 2013/14
(October 4, 2013- April 30, 2014 )
Open to 2-3 enthusiastic, hard-working interns for the Winter Season.

Activities include:
Scheduled classes and set-up,

Firewood,
Horse work and maintenance,
Skiing or snowshoeing,
Candle making,
Singing and music.

Interns must be 21 years or older,
Have a vehicle and driver's license,
Be able to run a chainsaw,
Have experience or strong desire to work with horses,
Be physically capable and active,
Be familiar and comfortable in cold, snowy winter conditions,
Provide their own food,
Have taken a Living Wild class.

Accommodations are simple with wood heat, no electricity, no cell service.

$500 for 1st month, negotiable thereafter.

WINTER SKILLS $600

Jan 10-16

Snow shelters: 
igloos, trenches, quinzes.

Tracking:
Learn how to identify tracks of common regional animals.

Staying warm: 
(fire, clothing, food, water.)
Learn how to build and maintain a fire under winter conditions.
Felt hats, slippers or mittens from sheep wool,
Learn how to choose fiber for felting, other types of felting fibers and create warm durable Winter clothing.
prepare high calorie meals.

Travel: 
skis, snowshoes, toboggans.

Light: 
candles, fat lamps, torches.

Songs and stories for the dark times.

DESERT BASIC SKILLS $700

February (dates pending)

(Hosted at Reevis Mountain School Az)

Includes tasty organic meals from the garden!

Join us in the beautiful Sonoran desert for the Southwestern version of Basic Skills class

• Fire by friction,
• Cordage from plant and animal fibers,
• Working stone, bone and wood into basic tools; simple knives, awls, needles
• Glues and bindings,
• Burn bowls and utensils,
• Cooking on an open fire.
• Shelter building,
• Desert plants for food and utility,
• Small animal processing
• Primitive cooking
  

ANIMAL PROCESSING (GERMANY) 600 euros

March 21-27, 2014
Koln, Germany

Contact:

Uwe Belz

Web: www.wildnistraining.de

Using stone tools that we make during class we shall process an entire deer.

Gutting

Skinning

Quartering

Meat processing for food and utility:

jerky, pemmican, sausage, burgers, organs.

Hide working: rawhide and tanning.

Bone tools: awls, knives, needles, scrapers.

All parts of the animal are used and a new respect

is gained for the life that is sustaining us.

BASIC SKILLS (FRANCE) 600 euros  

                           March 31- April 6, 

Ferme de Fonluc
Les Eyzies

Contact:

"vincent riboul"

 <flyingmessage@yahoo.fr>

In the ancient setting of prehistoric caves we discover the every day skills of our ancestors.

Stone tool making from local flint.

Fire by friction.

Atl-atl (spear throwers)

Bindings: ropes and glues.

Edible and medicinal plants.

Hunting and trapping techniques.

Shelters.

Small animal processing.

Primitive cooking methods.



HORSE RIDING ADVENTURE (FRANCE)       

300 euros
     

Appaloosa horses at Ferme de Fonluc

April 8-10
Ferme de Fonluc
Les Eyzies

Contact:
"Herbert Backhaus"
Fonluc (at) fonluc.com
or lynxvilden(at)gmail,com

Join us for an amazing journey along the Vesere valley, visiting prehistoric sites reaching back to Neanderthal times.

Riding, walking and camping with the skills learned in the Basic Skills class and the horses of Fonluc. 
Class size limited to 8
(riding experience preferred, adults only)

HIDE TANNING INTENSIVE (with Katie Russell) $600
April 1-14 and/or April 15-30

If you are dreaming of joining the Living Wild Summer preparation program,
We highly recommend you come learn tanning for 2-4 weeks with Katie in order to have the required number of hides that participants will be required to bring this year.

Katie participated in the 2007 Living Wild project and has been tanning hides and making clothes ever since.

www.wilderbabe.com

WILD EDIBLE PLANTS $600

May 9-15

The focus for this class is on preparation of the main wild food plants of
the region.

Identification of edible and medicinal plants.
Sustainable and ethical harvesting,
Preservation and cooking techniques.

We will gather and process spring beauties, yellow bells, wild onions, bitteroots, lomatium, balsam root seeds, nettles, bryoria lichen and more.
Steam bake in a pit oven and savor the power and energy inherent in wild foods.

This class will give you the time and knowledge to gather the required 5 lbs of dried plant foods required to participate in the summer immersion program.

cattail roots, waterleaf, spring beauty corms, mariposa lilly bulbs, nodding onions, hooker onions, nettles, bitteroots, bluebells, balsam seeds, lomatium roots, fireweed shoots, yellow bell bulbs, mustard greens, morel and bolete mushrooms.