Advanced Bushcraft & Survival Weekend

Name: Advanced Bushcraft & Survival Weekend
Start: 2025-11-07T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-09T16:00:00+00:00
Location: Polaris Wilderness Adventure

Schedule

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Sun, 09 Nov, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Polaris Wilderness Adventure | Hertford, EN

For those familiar with camping, or if you are looking to build upon skills learnt in our Bushcraft & Survival weekend, our Advanced Bushcraft course will give you the chance to go beyond the basics of fire, water and shelter, learning new skills in a relaxed atmosphere in a beautiful private woodland.
We will build advanced natural shelters, which you can sleep in of you wish, make a raised bed with a self-feeding fire, and this will include sourcing the timber we need, covering Axe and Knife work/safety and felling small trees.
Fire-lighting will be revisited, and a concentrated input into honing your friction fire lighting (bow drill) skills and, once we have flame, looking at various cook fires and outdoor cooking methods.
Submerge yourself in nature to reconnect with your natural surroundings learning about animal tracks and signs, natural navigation techniques, wild foods, tree types and their uses.
As with all our courses, our camp is focused around covered area and communal fire with kettle. We also have a composting toilet on-site for your comfort.
Starting from 7pm Friday to 4.00pm Sunday and led by qualified NCFE Level 4 Bushcraft Leader Graham Couling.
£240 per person.
Course content includes:
Fire by friction
Fire management, Fire Lays, Self-feeding fires
Tinder Preparation and Selection
Modern Shelter Systems
Shelter Construction, different types of natural shelter
Natural Cordage
Camp craft
The Bushcraft knife
'Knife law'
Bushcraft saws, selection, care and safe use
Axe selection, care and safe use
Heat & cold injuries
Animal tracks & feeding sign
Natural Navigation - Using the sun, the stars, plants, trees, the weather and the land to navigate without modern aids.
Outdoor hygiene
Camp cooking
Clothing systems & equipment
Wild food
Plant & tree identification & their uses.