Roots Core Skills I introduces students to our school’s main elements, primitive survival skills, tracking, and awareness. In this week long course students will gain hands on experience and time tested information about survival shelters, primitive water filtration and gathering, and friction fire skills such as bow drill and hand drill. As we move into food gathering students will spend time harvesting and processing wild edibles, practice hunting skills with ancient weapons, and learning how to skin, clean, and cook their catch. Tracking and awareness will support all of these skills as we learn the skills necessary to becoming a member of our ecosystem, not an alien struggling to survive. A high intensity, experience rich, week designed to give students the strongest possible foundation for further learning. Students will also gain hands on time with rock tools, primitive water vessels, cordage making, and more. We keep this class small so expect more time doing than watching.