BUILD A SOLID FOUNDATION >>>
When you’re learning carpentry, you don’t start by framing a house. You start by learning how to swing a hammer. If you’re training to be a mechanic, you don’t take on rebuilding a small-block Chevy your first day. You learn how to turn a wrench. Just like these trades, bushcraft skills don’t come overnight. You don’t start out with that elevated pioneer platform shelter the first time you go out in the woods. You start by learning the essentials. You need building blocks. If you want to cultivate something that lasts and do it right, start with a rock-solid foundation.
Here’s what you’ll learn in this 1-day course:
- Essential knots and lashings
- Safe and effective use of knives, axes, and saws
- Carving a baton and learning essential notches
- Firecraft, including processing wood and starting fire without matches or a lighter
- Basic tree and plant identification to better know your resources
- Useful camp tools you can make while enjoying your campfire
- Quick and easy tarp shelters to keep you dry
And here’s what else you’ll get with the course:
- A hot, home-cooked lunch to keep you going throughout the day
- Unlimited email support with our instructors after the class is over
Date & Time: Saturday, November 16th, 2024, 9am-7pm
Use code MIL1ST at checkout for 10% off your registration.
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MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR >>>
ALEXANDER BRYANT - LEAD INSTRUCTOR
Alexander Bryant is SARCRAFT’s founder and Lead Instructor. His love for the outdoors was born in Boy Scouts, where he attained the rank of Eagle, and earned 90 merit badges. He currently serves in the Georgia Army National Guard’s 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team as a designated marksman in a reconnaissance unit. For over a decade prior to joining the military, he served with Cherokee County Fire & Emergency Services Wilderness Search & Rescue Team, spending five years as a Squad Leader planning and leading field search missions. Additionally, he is the youngest person ever to achieve the National Association for Search & Rescue’s SARTECH 1 certification – a benchmark only attained by 100+ people in the last 25 years, and is also currently certified as a Wilderness First Responder. He’s hiker trash and proud of it, having hiked over 1,000 miles of the Appalachian Trail, as well as logging hundreds of miles on other trails everywhere from Colorado to Florida. Outside of SARCRAFT, he enjoys fine whiskey, tactical shooting, and working on his other business ventures.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR >>>
STEVE MULLINAX - BUSHCRAFT INSTRUCTOR
Steve Mullinax serves as SARCRAFT’s bushcraft skills instructor. He is a lifelong outdoorsman, having camped, hiked, backpacked, hunted, fished, and paddled the woods and waters of North Georgia for as long as he can remember. After learning that the skills he grew up with went by the name “bushcraft,” he dove into training professionally with both feet. He has trained with legendary instructor Ray Mears at the Woodlore School in England, arguably one of the premier outdoor skills schools on the planet. He has also worked one-on-one learning from the great woods hippie Jeff Gottlieb at Nantahala Outdoor Center. In his spare time, Steve enjoys doing the same things he teaches – bushcraft, hunting, fishing, and exploring the woods, in addition to spending quality time with his wife, Paula. You can check him out on Instagram at @outofeden_bushcraft.
