Ancient Fire Making

1 day or 2 days with overnight camp

Join our expert bushcraft leader Rob and learn how to make fire from scratch, a necessary skill in a survival situation.

This is an immersive and unique experience, spend the day in nature practicing this art from our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

The history and depth of this course will truly ignite the spark within you and prepare all future outdoor adventures.

1 day course:
- Intro, course outline and H&S brief.
- Fire understanding and prep.
- Friction fire demo.
- Ferrocerium rod fire making.
- Maintaining & sustaining fire.
(different wood burning properties)
- Lunch.
- Guide to ancient fire making materials.
- Methods & techniques of old.
- Charring techniques & tins.
- Flint & Steel fire making.
- Course end.

2 day course (includes overnight camp in the Woods):
Day 1
- Intro, course outline and H&S brief.
- Fire understanding and prep.
- Friction fire demo.
- Ferrocerium rod fire making.
- Maintaining & sustaining fire.
(different wood burning properties)
- Lunch.
- Guide to ancient fire making materials.
- Methods & techniques of old.
- Charring techniques & tins.
- Flint & Steel fire making.
Day 2
- The journey of friction fire.
- Friction fire in survival situations.
- Woodland walk for Wood & tree recognition.
- Friction fire Material sourcing.
- Lunch.
- Building friction fire kits.
- Fire preps & project set up.
- Friction fire practice period.
- Getting the ember.

Dates & Times:

• 1 day course is Saturday 5th October 10am-4pm
• 2 day course runs from Saturday 5th-Sunday 6th October

Tickets:

• £65 for 1 day
• £150 for 2 days and camp out