Portland Outdoor Adventure & Wilderness Skills

Featured PDX Program

Outdoor Immersion

3 days a week Train Permaculture or Hunter Gatherer Skills. The Ancient arts are Coming Back. Are you Ready? Know the land. Find community. Collaborate & Thrive... Learn more

Wilderness Survival

Primitive Skills Basics

Through a mixture of hands on activities and presentation students develop a basic foundation of wilderness survival and primitive skills.

Immerison

Have you ever wanted to live on the Oregon Coast? Are you interested in Permaculture and want to get your Permaculture Design Certificate? Then join TrackersNW Instructor Henry Stanley and other guest instructors for a 3 month summer Immersion program in Manzanita on the northern Oregon coast.

Upcoming Adult Programs

Primitive Skills Evenings Feb 2-23 Tuesdays
Make Shoes from Scrap Leather Feb 16-18
Knot Tying & Ropework Evening Feb 17-18
Healing Teas: Trees of Life Feb 28, 2010
Paleolithic Primer: Primitive Tech Series March 27-28
Edible Wild: Spring Greens Mar 28, 2010
Wilderness First Responder April 10-19, 2010
5 Weekends Skin on Frame Kayak Building Begins April 10
Primitive Pottery Basics May 1-2 & 8
Wilderness Survival Basics May 8-9, 2010
11 days Skin on Frame Kayak Building May 14-24
Wilderness Survival Weekend Overnight May 28-30
Primitive Pottery Apprenticeship Begins June 6
3 Month Oregon Coast Permaculture Immersion June 14-Aug 27
Paleolithic Primer: Primitive Tech Series July 10-11
Wilderness Survival Basics Oct 2-3
Wilderness Survival Basics Nov 6-7

Upcoming Community Programs

Boat Building & Folk Craft Nature of the Village Jan 4-8 Day

Upcoming Full-Time Immersion Programs

9 months to 1 year Wilderness Immersion Begin any term
4 Seasons Permaculture Design Jan 2010-Sept 2010
Winter Term Boat Building & Folk Craft Full Time
Spring Term Edible Plants and Homesteading Full Time
Summer Term Expedition Survival Training Full-Time

Popular Programs

Build a kayak

April Design and build your kayak for your body and personality. Lashed, pegged and sewn.

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Primitive Skills Evenings

February Gain the foundations for a hand craft and primitive skills. Each evening introduces a new skills.

Boat Building & Folk Craft Skillshare

January Join us at the TrackersHQ for 5-days of boat building and sharing skills.

Wilderness First Responder

January or April 2010 Join us for the premier training program for emergencies in remote settings.

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Kayak Building

In the black center of the Bering Sea, where color claws the night sky, the Aleutians rise; their rocky coasts bitter with frost. For thousands of years Unangan people have navigated those waters in skin framed boats. In the likeness of seals and whales that rule the water world, they don their boats like a second skin, their frames flexing in a network of ligaments. They are bodies of strength, endurance and integrity. From great depths to the shoreline, join our crew as we explore the shrouded mysteries of the sea. Build your kayak...