Ancient Pathways, LLC offers our Traditional Skills Semester program which is an immersion into Native American cultures, Southwest Archeology, Wilderness Survival, and Bushcraft skills.
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Welcome to Ancient Pathways, LLC
Traditional Survival Skills Semester
Our Traditional Survival Skills Semester program is an intensive, hands-on immersion into primitive and traditional wilderness skills, natural history, and Native American cultures of the Southwest. Based at our outfitted basecamp north of Flagstaff, students will have the chance to explore a stunning region where three very different environments converge - the mountains, high desert, and canyonlands of northern Arizona. From the Sonoran Desert to the San Francisco Peaks to Four Corners Region, students will experience a tremendous array of outdoor skills and environments not found at any other outdoor survival semester program in North America. College credit is available for students pursuing academic studies in Anthropology, Archeology, or Wilderness Leadership.
Part of the school semester is spent in our rural basecamp setting where students will learn and apply daily outdoor living skills such as firemaking, traditional cooking methods, shelterbuilding, axmanship, braintanning, mammal tracking, earth living, herbal medicine, and other basic wilderness survival skills.

5 Week Primitive
Living Skills Intensive
September 13-October 17, 2009
Cost: $2500
This comprehensive course delves into the world of primitive technology, hunting & gathering, and long-term self-reliance skills. If you've ever wanted to learn how to live off the land and provide for your needs, then come join us for this hands-on course.

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The other part of the course schedule is spent on the trail exploring mountain, desert, and canyon environments while relying on newly learned wilderness survival skills. 
 
Guest lecturers joining us throughout the semester range from archeologists to trackers to Native American elders. With a wealth of nearby prehistoric ruins to draw upon, we will explore the Arizona outdoors including a tour of ancient cliff-dwellings and rock-art sites along with a visit amongst Native American guides at the Hopi mesas.

The wilderness semester is broken down by week into an array of outdoor survival skills, topics, and fieldtrips throughout the mountains, deserts, and canyons of Northern Arizona. While on the trail, students will learn to travel like the ancient Anasazi Indians who relied on a minimum of gear while depending on the natural resources around them. Near semester's end, each student will apply their outdoor survival skills in a final Bushcraft fieldcourse while relying on a minimum of modern survival gear.

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