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About Hoods Woods! Hoods Woods Wilderness Skills List About Us Main Page - Programs - Skills  This list is meant as an illustration of the types of skills we cover in our courses and videos. Some of the items listed on the sheet will be covered in more or less formal presentations. Others are covered as the opportunity presents itself. If you have an interest in some area, we want you to feel free to ask one of the Instructors for special instruction. It is important that you feel comfortable and satisfied with your experience. Please keep in mind that not all instructional areas are given the same emphasis. We place emphasis on the areas that you feel you want to know about. Naturally, we recommend that you take notes and review your notes during the trip. Your notes may help you to find questions you did not think to ask earlier. Skills will not be covered in the order in which they are listed and not all of the skills we cover are listed. Remember, The Woodsmaster Videos are by far the best way to begin the mastery of wilderness skills. Cooking Tricks Bread making Cobblers Cooking fires Stone Oven White wood ash cooking Edible Plants Collection and preparation of foods Leaching Plant uses other than as food Poisonous plants Recognition of available plants Teas The poison "Taste test" Firemaking Skills Fire Safety Fire by friction (Bow drill) Fire with Flint and Steel Fire with Metal Match Other techniques Picking a good Shelter Firebeds Heat loss mechanisms Pine-needle quilts Site selection Tricks with a tube tent Fishing Skills Cleaning a fish Fishing with a barb-less fly Hand fishing techniques Handmade lures from natural materials Manufacturing a fishing set from your survival kit Hunting Skills "Psychic silence" "Whistle up" and the "Apache circle" Animal "Alarm calls" Animal awareness Bait test patch Silent walking and "Whistle pants" Tracking techniques Tracks Walking stick Tracking Hunting Tools "Atlatl" and spear Bow and arrow Guns for survival law and the survivor Rocks Slings Throwing stick Skinning and Tanning How to skin a small animal Should only small animals be taken? Smoking and softening a hide Urine/brain tanning Use of the intestines Trapping Deadfalls Descenting a trap Identification of proper trapping sites Snares Twitch up snares Primitive Navigation Skills A general overview of nighttime direction finding A method for discovering your approximate latitude, not using a map A portable sun compass Direction finding using a tree (Any method) Direction finding with a watch, analog and digital Fist time The "Rule of Thumb" The crescent moon as a tool for finding direction The shadow stick method of direction finding The shadowless stick method Map and Compass Skills Adjusting for map declination Bearings to a feature Following a bearing to a location Map and terrain association Proving your location The information contained on the map Township, Range Coordinates Tree markers Triangulation using bearings Types of North Satellite GPS systems Hiking and Walking Techniques Hiking intervals Hiking techniques (Plainsman, Lockstep) Proper hydration Rest periods Trail nutrition Walking sticks Safety and First Aid Animal diseases Blisters, applying moleskin Dehydration High Altitude Pulmonary edema Hyperthermia Hypothermia Signaling Snake and insect bites Water diseases Trail Organization and Tips Emergency signals, Use of the whistle Hiking order, leader and trail sweep The Look back Safety precautions Trash Waste Water purification Misc Skills as Opportunity and Materials Permit Cordage construction Finding materials for tools and weapons Lithic arts Solar still Trash innovation Survival with Style Miscellaneous as applicable Wilderness Sauna About Us Main Page - Programs - Skills  Copyright ©1998 Hoods Woods. All rights reserved.