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Welcome
to Ancient Pathways, LLC
Traditional Survival Skills
Semester |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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The
stunning pools below the magnificent
blue-green waterfalls of Havasupai is
one of our classrooms! |
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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. |
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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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Next
Southwest Semester Program
August
31 - November 1, 2008
Cost: $5,600 |
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Join
the Adventure in Wilderness Survival &
Bushcraft! |
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