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Learn Bushcraft skills with Keycamp!

We have teamed up with The Woodcraft School, bushcraft leaders since 1997, to offer you the chance to learn some bushcraft and survival skills. So, if you are a fan of the great outdoors and would like to learn how to build a shelter, make a fire by friction or know how to identify food for foraging, join us this summer at Berny Riviere near Paris in France.

The range of bushcraft courses has been designed to suit everyone, from beginners to advanced, for both children and adults.

• Basic Bushcraft
• Fire by friction
• Wild food forage
• Nature ramble

Course description	Duration	Age-range	Price
BASIC BUSHCRAFT - including fire making, water and shelter. This programme focuses on some of the key areas of outdoor living perceived by many as survival skills. Although the knowledge shared here explores the principles of dealing with emergency situations it can also be used to enhance any trip into the outdoors. We take a hands on approach in our teaching and you will have plenty of opportunity to create fire using several different methods. We will also examine methods of making our water safe and have chance to explore some fundamental shelter designs.	3 hours	Adults Kids 8+	Adults: €28 Children (under 18): €21
FIRE BY FRICTION - includes tools use, making and using own bow drill set. This programme takes the fire making process much further back in history exploring perhaps the oldest method ever used by human kind to utilise fire. You will be involved in the construction of the equipment and be thoroughly taught the correct technique to allow for success. Time permitting you may also have a chance to build your friction fire sufficiently to cook a tasty treat on.	3 hours	Adults Kids 8+	Adults: €28 Children (under 18): €21
WILD FOOD FORAGE - identification and tasting At one time we all relied heavily on the landscape to provide our basic needs including food. Much of this legacy still survives in fields, woods and hedgerows. Join us as we identify, gather, cook and taste some of the wealth of species available as food and medicine. This is a great way to reconnect with the landscape and to enhance anytime spent in the great outdoors	3 hours	Adults Kids 8+	Adults: €28 Children (under 18): €21
NATURE RAMBLE - bat detecting and tracks and signs This programme takes the form of a gentle stroll through the forest finding sign of the creature that share this environment. We will be looking for tracks and feeding sign trying to identify bats and learning about trees and plants and their uses. This course is likely to be very variable as we are never quite sure what we will find!	1.5 hours	Adults Kids 8+	Adults: €12 Children (under 18): €10

The age restrictions are intended as a guide to indicate the level that the courses are intended for. Younger children are able to attend if supervised by an adult.

COURSE CALENDAR

2010 Dates	AM Session (9am - 12pm)	PM Session (1pm - 4pm)	Evening Session (6pm - 7.30pm)
6 April	Basic Bushcraft	Fire by Friction	Nature ramble
7 April	Basic Bushcraft	Wild Food

1 June	Basic Bushcraft	Fire by Friction	Nature ramble
2 June	Basic Bushcraft	Wild Food

7 June	Basic Bushcraft	Fire by Friction	Nature ramble
8 June	Basic Bushcraft	Wild Food

22 June	Basic Bushcraft	Fire by Friction	Nature ramble
23 June	Basic Bushcraft	Wild Food

20 July	Basic Bushcraft	Fire by Friction	Nature ramble
21 July	Basic Bushcraft	Wild Food

27 July	Basic Bushcraft	Fire by Friction	Nature ramble
28 July	Basic Bushcraft	Wild Food

3 August	Basic Bushcraft	Fire by Friction	Nature ramble
4 August	Basic Bushcraft	Wild Food

10 August	Basic Bushcraft	Fire by Friction	Nature ramble
11 August	Basic Bushcraft	Wild Food

17 August	Basic Bushcraft	Fire by Friction	Nature ramble
18 August	Basic Bushcraft	Wild Food

26 August	Basic Bushcraft	Fire by Friction	Nature ramble
27 August	Basic Bushcraft	Wild Food

26 October	Basic Bushcraft	Fire by Friction	Nature ramble
27 October	Basic Bushcraft	Wild Food (Fungi foraging)