Tim Smith
Aug 24, 2025
Blog
During the summer courses we braintanned two deer hides and made red osier dogwood and spruce root baskets. Here is a photo of one person’s work, with the basket full of summer wildflowers, herbs and berries. The hides were ones I had scraped a few years ago, so we just did the braining and softening. [...]
Tim Smith
Aug 23, 2025
Blog
Although I haven’t been active online, it has been a busy summer at the field school. We had a solid canoe guide training course with great water levels on the Allagash, followed by week-long summer woodsman 1 and 2 classes. And now we’re a day away from starting the fall Wilderness Bushcraft Semester, our 67th [...]