On Wednesday May 8, 2024 I went up to Stony Lake and taught a one day survival course at Camp Miniwanca. In attendance were ten eighth graders all the way from Kansas City. It was a good experience. We covered survival needs in the wilderness, safe knife handling, primitive fire, shelter building, tripod building and […]
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I recently received a shipment of chert. In the video I make sparks using a steel striker and a piece of chert. I used this chert to practice primitive fire with a group of kids from Kansas City who were staying at a camp in Stony Lake, MI. I will also be using this chert
In addition to running a survival school, I am a supervisor in a state agency and was recently in leadership training. In this training, I got into a conversation with one of the Lansing trainers after she mentioned that she runs a veterans treatment group. This greatly peaked my interest. I told her how I
