Wilderness Experience & Earthskills Overnight Camp (Aug 13-18)
Description:
The Wilderness Experience Camp is the foundation to our overnight camps. While attending this week-long overnight camp, everyone will build their own friction fire kit and survival shelter. Campers will also learn; ancient navigational skills, how to cook over a campfire, and how to make their own utensils, . We will wander to our favorite fishing spots and cool off while exploring the secluded mountains streams and waterfalls. Oh and for those who like a challenge, the SCOUT LOG!
In the Earthskills Camp you will learn the ancient skills that our ancestors used to thrive in nature. Each camper will develop the focus and confidence that these skills unleash!
This camp features advanced skills like primitive pottery, archery, stone tools, hide-tanning and overnight mock survival experiences. We will wander to our favorite fishing spots and cool off while exploring our secluded mountains streams and waterfalls.
This experience will expand your child's comfort and confidence levels, build self esteem, confidence, problem solving skills, and will create an appreciation for life and nature as we camp in the Shenandoah Mountains on a 1400-acre private wilderness sanctuary near Harpers Ferry, WV.
Students will come home empowered with an unprecedented wealth of ancient knowledge, hands-on experience and hand-crafted items.
If your child isn't comfortable overnight camping, we recommend they attend our Youth Day Camps first.
Ages: 11- 17
Arrive at Camp: 4-5 pm Sunday
Depart from Camp: 11am Friday
Registration Fee: $750
We have several discounts available (Only one coupon code can be used at a time. Discounts will not apply if you register without codes)
10% Family Discount* With two or more siblings attending the same camp, use Coupon Code; family
10% Multiple Overnight Camp Discount* When you register for two or more camps use the code: multi
5% Returning Camper Discount* When you have previously attended our camps use the code: return
Early Bird Discount automatically receive and additional 5% if you register before 2/28/23)
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Meet the Staff
Ben Kamm - Lead Instructor
Raised in the DMV, Ben spent his summers camping and hiking all over the east coast, even to Canada. He developed skills in plant ID and tracking, on these trips, and continued to draw inspiration from his childhood experiences as he was mentored by Ancestral Knowledge Staff. During this mentor-ship, Ben honed his skills around fire making and carving, with a strong focus on friction fire (Bow Drill method).
Ben is passionate about History and the way that ancient people lived, he strives to share the ways that our ancestors used to thrive and survive. As a home schooler and one of seven, Ben has experience with mentoring younger children and working in a group!
Always an active person, Ben enjoys weight lifting and exploring his local landscape.
Keith Grenoble - Lead Instructor
Keith Grenoble has been a product of the Back to the Land movement and developed close ties to Native communities from an early age. Keith started his journey by making stone tools represented in the rich archaeological record of Tidewater, Virginia and has been teaching earth skills since 1987. Over time, Keith has become skilled in a variety of earth skills. He is very passionate about making simulations of prehistoric cookpots, and enjoys working with people of all experience levels and interests. He can often be seen catching a knap here and there.
Bill Kaczor - Executive Director/Co-founder 2007-Present
Bill is the Executive Director and a co-founder of Ancestral Knowledge. Bill has worked and studied intensively with the masters in the fields of; youth mentoring, naturalist studies, primitive technology and tracking. He has been teaching children and adults in these subjects since 1998 — Bill was a lead instructor at Children of the Earth Foundations- Coyote Tracks summer camps for 5 years, and two years as the assistant director. He has instructed students at the University of Maryland, Georgetown University, Rivercane & Falling Leaves Rendezvous, Mid-Atlantic Primitive Skills Gathering (MAPS Meet), Bill can often be found instructing at Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School teaching primitive traps, bow making, flint knapping, pottery and hide tanning. In 1999 after 11 years, Bill chose to leave his skateboard/snowboard business and dedicate his life to helping people connect with the Earth through ancient skills. Shortly afterwards, Bill designed and was granted an after school and summer program for the 21st Century Learning Community in Public School District 150 of Peoria, Illinois. This program was successful in that it led the children to a respect for nature, respect for themselves and others, self-discipline and adventure. Bill is a specialist in bow making, stone tool technologies, hide tanning, fire by friction and hunting and experienced in many more skills.
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