Red Deer Camp

The Way of the Hunter
Coed Ages 13-16
July 13-19, 2008

Cost: $675

Red Deer is a week of hunting lore, skills and philosophy, and involves tracking, awareness skills, arrows and bows, spears, sticks, cooking, clothing, stalking, blinds, trailing and scouting. Our focus is on the skills of the Hunter, whose relationship with the deer (or other prey) was deeply personal and one of profound inner connection. The observation part of this program alone will blow you away. This camp pulls all of the hunting, tracking and awareness skills taught in our other camps together into full understanding of this essential art and skill. May your aim be true!

Some of the skills and activities listed below form the core of the Red Deer Camp curriculum:

• Animal Study, Behavior & Identification
• Animal Forms & Dances
• Advanced Tracking & Trailing
• Movement & Stalking Techniques
• Storytelling & Hunter’s Council
• Camouflage: Mind & Body
• Bark Quivers
• Animal Medicine

• Primitive Sapling Bows and Arrows
• Willow Animal Effigies
• Buckskin Leather Medicine Pouches
• Throwing Sticks
• Throwing Spears, Apache Long Dart
• Natural Blinds and Hides
• Hunter’s Camouflage
• Hunter’s Sits (Nature Observation)
• Hunting Weapons Practice
• Leather Slings and Bolas
• Hunter’s Lodge
• Hunter’s Foods-Dried Meat and Trail Food
• Stalking and Movement Skills

Application for Enrollment

"The most important things I learned in the camp was patience and that a hunter's skill was being able to be still and wait.   My greatest challenge was making a good bow and finding a good, straight shaft for a good arrow....."

Red Deer Camper, 2006