Today Rewild Camp was at Irving Park in Northeast Portland. It was an exciting rewilding camp because Kelila got her very first bow-drill coal! She has been working at it for a while and today it finally happened. So congrats to Kelila for creating fire! We also worked on making cordage from Yucca leaves to eventually move away from the nylon cord on her bow-drill and toward the more natural approach. Kyle played some guitar between carving his own bow-drill set. Thor and Emily came and worked on some flint-knapping. Thor also had a fun hand-drill fire kit that we played with and I ruined (sorry Thor!). Garth showed up and also worked on a hand-drill fire. Seems like fire fluency is building all around. On the docket for the summer Rewild Camps: brain-tanning rabbit skins, deer skins and raccoon skins, more basketry with pine needles, willows and ivy, more bow-making with all kinds of woods, atlatl making, plant walks, etc, etc. Rewild Camp is so much fun!
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Rewild Skillshare 5.21.11
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Posted: May 21, 2011 by Peter Bauer
Today Rewild Camp was at Irving Park in Northeast Portland. It was an exciting rewilding camp because Kelila got her very first bow-drill coal! She has been working at it for a while and today it finally happened. So congrats to Kelila for creating fire! We also worked on making cordage from Yucca leaves to eventually move away from the nylon cord on her bow-drill and toward the more natural approach. Kyle played some guitar between carving his own bow-drill set. Thor and Emily came and worked on some flint-knapping. Thor also had a fun hand-drill fire kit that we played with and I ruined (sorry Thor!). Garth showed up and also worked on a hand-drill fire. Seems like fire fluency is building all around. On the docket for the summer Rewild Camps: brain-tanning rabbit skins, deer skins and raccoon skins, more basketry with pine needles, willows and ivy, more bow-making with all kinds of woods, atlatl making, plant walks, etc, etc. Rewild Camp is so much fun!
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Category: Rewild Camp Tags: Friction Fire, Portland, Primitive Skills, Rewilding, Survival Skills, wild foods, Wilderness Survival