Teen Academic Coed Summer Bushcraft and Wilderness Skills

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To register please email toni@noli5.com

2 Week Total Immersion Wilderness Survival Skills

Our aim of this total immersion camp is to grow our teens into competent, safe, and ethical backpackers. This camp goes deep in the skills of wilderness survival, firearms, archery, and the skills necessary to work or recreation in the backcountry. The teens will experience everything from navigation to packing it on a mule. This is a hands-on exploration under master mentors. Much of the material covered in this camp our school students experience daily and this camp can be used as part of their 180 days of instruction. Your child may be able to earn science or physical education at their home school, there is more information on this below.

Summer Camp: Coed Teen 2 Week Total Immersion Buchcraft Our teen camps are intensive total immersion wilderness experiences intended to make them confident and self-reliant in nature. They’re applying leadership skills, survival skills and the practical skills of our ancestors.

*Sessions, dates, prices, programs, location subject to change.

Date: Return to Teen Summary Page for dates

Ages: 13 – 19

Gender: Co-ed

Location: Idaho Panhandle

Cost:

**Prerequisite:

Registration or Information: Email Toni@noli5.com or call or text Toni King (925)785-2946

Description: During these two weeks the teens will focus developing their backcountry skills including bushcraft, cooking, navigation, tracking, art, basic horsemanship, archery, and rifle and shotgun shooting.

Mule Knows

Full Description:

During these two weeks the teens in part will focus on developing their backcountry skills of survival and thriving in the wilderness. They will develop skills to be safe and accurate with archery equipment, rifles, and shotguns. They will learn the skills of being in the backcountry, tracking, cooking on backpacking stoves, and most importantly an ethical mindset of Leave No Trace.

Teen Boy Rappelling

Details of Material Covered

Intro to In the Wilderness Training: Essentials of Survival

This camp takes you from a newbie to skilled woods person, not only to learn important skills but have a lot of fun, and make memories to last a lifetime. This camp is based on using mostly resources found in nature. We will go deep into the skills and you will walk out not only with memories and skills, but with many projects and our documentation.

FYI, many of these same skills and materials taught are in our adult Wilderness Essentials Classes

Basic Survival Skills

Survival skills are the necessary skills to keep yourself alive long enough for you to be rescued, for self-rescue, and/or prevent yourself from being in a survival situation to begin with. You should not go into the wilds without having mastery of these basic skills.

Fire

Please Note: Weather and Fire Conditions may Curtail Open Fire Activities

The Skills of Accessing the Forest

Knowing and Understanding Wildlife

Knowing how to identify wildlife, tracking and reading sign, the behavior of wildlife, and various animals we see, smell, hear, and sense. Each day in camp (and in our regular school day) the students spend an hour or more observing wildlife and discussing their observations with the group. The students will keep a nature journal which they most likely will treasure for a life time and could use for college admission.

Deep Wilderness Communication

During much if not all of the camp cell service will not be available as with most true deep nature locations, but wireless communications are necessary for logistics and safety. The students will be exposed to the advantages and limitations various wireless communications have including consumer grade unlicensed walkie-talkies, CB, Ham, and satellite phones.

Firearms Safety and Shooting Training

Your teens will go deep into archery hunting and firearms hunting skills.

Firearm Safety

This section should be taught to all kids. It is a common belief that kids should be taught to learn to swim in case they fall into a body of water. We strongly believe that the same is true with firearms in case a kid finds one or a friend brings one out they will know how to make the gun safe, know if the situation is safe, or when assistance is needed. We also believe that kids that pursue shooting sports such as competitive target rifle (paper and metal targets), trap (shotgun shooting flying clay disks). The training is very in-depth and broad.
We are Hunter Education Instructors and Firearms Instructors and again teach the skills and habits to assure their own safety and the safety of others.

Firearms

The students will have hands on training with the 6 most popular modern long gun actions:

The students will learn the mechanics, the function, and maintenance unique to each type of action.

Ammunition

We go into great depth into the topic of ammo. Learn how to properly select ammo for various applications. Students cast alloy bullets, and hand-make both shotgun and rifle ammo which they will later shoot. Not only does this give them a deep understanding of anatomy, physiology, and selection of ammo for the game to be hunted, but this skill also teaches them transferable skills used in science and technology. There is also a real value in the self-esteem they earn. Teens earn pride catching a fish on a fly they tied they also earn pride in putting a hole in a target or breaking a clay with ammo they have made.

Firearms Shooting Skills

Our students will have ample instruction and time shooting with certified instructors in both rifle and shotgun shooting. The students can shoot trap and rifle and will learn the good form of competitive shooting.

Teen Shooting Trap

Learn From Masters

The 14 teens will be working with three masters of what they mentor who will act as their core mentors. There will be others that may pop in and out to share their expertise with the students. They all have a love for the outdoors and a passion for what they do.

Toni King

Toni King

Toni King started teaching hunter’s education for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife in 2009 and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife in 2016. She is a certified Rifle, Pistol, and Shotgun instructor. She has a love for the sport of trap and empowering girls to participate in shooting sports.

Toni King

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Brian D. King

Brian King

Brian has spent his life teaching; much of it in field biology and natural history as well as wilderness survival, primitive skills, bushcraft, and shooting sports. In 2000, under his direction his students from Lone Pine HS helped develop curriculum, materials, and procedures for the National Park Service and taught students from other schools and states. In 2004 his students revised the material again teaching other students from other schools then presented it at an international educational conference in China where they were honored as one of the best presentations. That curriculum is part of what is being offered in this academic camp. He is an instructor for California and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, a rifle, pistol, and shotgun instructor, and a USArchery instructor and coach.

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Podcast Training Series and Q & A

This will be an incredible journey for the teens and to help guarantee success for those teens that register early in the months leading up to the camp we will have podcasts. Every other week these podcast trainings are for the campers to meet each other as well as their mentors, to learn skills they will use on the trip, what to expect and the unexpected, and most importantly to get all of their questions answered. Beginning in March we will have 6 sessions, 2 a month just for the teens. We will also have a podcast just for the parents to get their questions answered and introduce them to our team. Podcasts Topics Include

Cowboy Breakfast

A Word for Parents and High School Counselors

Our directors firmly believe that students’ best learn science and math when it is relevant to that which they are passionate about. All our academic camps are great models of this philosophy in action applying biology, physiology, earth science, and the scientific method.

Integral to School

We believe in the importance of all of our camps being integral to our school. Our director has seen firsthand the benefits that FFA had on his students when he was in FFA as a teen and with his students when he was an FFA advisor. He saw how it raised the bar in ways that could easily be measured and in ways only measured by students reflecting years later on how those experiences lead to their personal and professional successes as adults. Our academic camps allow our students to go deeper in to skills and areas of study that in the constraints of the school day make it difficult or imposable to do. Our camps allow students to go deep in to their own projects or assist others working on their project. How in the classroom can a student truly understand the beauty and value of wilderness and what it holds without experiencing it first-hand?

Teen Splitting Wood

Daily Core Routines of Successful Students

We believe in the power of habit and during our camps the students continue the core routines of success that we practice as the foundation of our school.

These Daily Core Routines Include:

This Camp Can be a Capstone Project

In our school our students must complete a capstone project to graduate; this camp can fill that need and can be used by students of other schools or by home scholars for their own capstone project. If your teen is not from our school and wants to use this camp as their capstone project, please contact us early so we can assist in planning. The students will also get deep exposure and hopefully connection with the flora, fauna, and geology of the Idaho Panhandle.

Teens Learning Physical Science

Physical Science

In the camp the students will apply skills in scientific measurement, length, mass, volume, density speed and velocity, temperature, humidity, and more. They will apply physics equations to analyze distance and drop, wind-resistance, kinetic energy.

Field Botany and Zoology

The students will learn to identify both plants and animals using field guides and dichotomous keys. They will learn to identify animals by their track and signs. The students will learn anatomy and physiology doing hands on dissection of birds and ruminating and non-ruminating mammals.

Earth Science

Navigation, Geology, and Weather

School Credit

We will assist the students’ home school in assuring that the student can earn science lab credits through their school. We are currently working towards our own accreditation. We will provide the student’s home school with an outline of what is covered and we can discuss with their school what can be done to assure the student gets credit for the work performed.

At the End of Camp Each Student Will Have:

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General Information

Date: Two Sessions Offered

Return to Teen Summary Page for dates

Ages

13 - 19

Gender

Coed

Max Enrollment

14

Location

Idaho Panhandle

Type of Camp

Teen Summer Coed Camp, Academic Field Biology and Natural History, Primitive Camping, Basic Horsemanship, Total Immersion, Adventure and Exploration

Cost

Material Fees

Some projects have additional material fees. We will discuss them in the podcasts.

Prerequisite

"A week at the rivers edge felt like a month in school."
—Ulysses S. Grant
"Looking for firewood in the snowy mountain, carrying back firewood, splitting firewood, listening to burning wood, watching for dancing flame. So joyous, you forget yourself, you forget a serious apppointment, warming up, flaming up, singing up, dancing up"
—Nanao Sakaki