Light It Up!

This class will focus on creating fire without the use of modern tools like lighters and matches.  There is a great freedom in being able to toss aside such attachments in your wilderness travels and create the independence that comes from being able to step in the into the woods and know that you can create fire in almost any circumstance.  Additionally, the patience and skill needed to learn primitive fire-making like the bow-drill, the hand drill, and the flint and steel will add to your confidence of self.  So come join this class and hold the power of fire-making in your being.

Course Details:

Saturday, meet @ 9am

• Seminar on primitive fire-making methods
• Introduce the Green River Knife and modify it
• Introduce flint and steel fire and char cloth
• Class creates some char cloth
• Class creates flint and steel sparks and fire
• Break-12-1 pm
• Introduce bow-drill fire-making
• Class creates bows and strings them
• Class Carves fire boards
• Class carves spindles
• Class works on bow-drilling and fire creation
• End @ 5pm

Sunday, meet @9am

• Continue to practice bow-drilling and working on creating success
• Introduce hand-drilling
• Carve hand-drill fire board and spindle
• Class works on hand drill
• End class @12

Cost: $80

Includes all supplies needed to create three different types of primitive fire as well as a new Green River knife, which is necessary for the class.

Instructor: Peter Bugoni

Peter Bugoni taught primitive skills in the deserts of Idaho and Utah for 6 years and spent several years working for Boulder Outdoor School of Survival.  Over this time of gathering water, providing clothing, creating fire, trapping, tracking, and hunting food, he kept extensive journals about the processes used to survive in the “wilderness.”  He has interned with famed bow makers John Strunk and Tim Baker, and learned brain-tanning hides with Jim Riggs, famed author of “Blue Mountain Buckskin.”   He can often be found at primitive skills gatherings like Rabbit Stick and Winter Count, playing with smelly hides and flinging arrows.