Advanced Nature Awareness (Backpacking Marble Mountain Wilderness)
About this program
Class Prerequisite: Must have taken Nature Awareness (Mt. Shasta)
* Students need to be physically capable to carry their own 30-40 pound backpack through rough terrain 7+ miles per day. *
Continuing a decades long tradition, this backpacking trip is the advanced version of the Nature Awareness class taught in Mount Shasta. This class is held in the Marble Mountain Wilderness, where students will be setting up a base camp and going on lightweight hikes throughout the area. Through exploration and meditation in the wilderness, students will sharpen their awareness and learn to commune with nature in a much deeper way.
Skills Covered
- Backpacking Skills including packing, cooking, and camp set-up.
- Navigating through the Wilderness
- Nature Observation
- Methods of immersing oneself in nature
- Movement in nature, including stalking and fox walking
- Tracking basics and identification, animal signs, trails, runs, scat, etc.
- Wild edible and useful plants and identification, gathering and eating
- Animal identification and animal behavior
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What people are saying:
Headwaters is a community in which service, integrity, and the value of hard work are taught by example in the everyday life of the camp. Headwaters is first and foremost a school of outdoor survival and primitive skills, but it is also a school of life. Over the years that Headwaters has been a part of my life, I have learned as much about how to live a fulfilling life that contributes to my community as I have about living off the land.I am profoundly grateful to Headwaters for helping me to become the person I am today.
