FirstAid4Me.Training

Another weekend, another workshop. This weekend I delivered a Basic Nav workshop to a small group.

Each attendee went from having little to no experience, to been able to navigate comfortably and confidently parts of a route.

Each put into practice, map orientation, measuring distance, pacing and time, collecting features, also showing confidence by delivering a ground brief to the remainder.

Well done

Took a small group today for an intermediate Nav workshop. Conditions were ideal with visibility down on higher ground, making it a little bit more challenging.

They all came away with that little bit more knowledge and experience than they started with.

Looking forward to the longer nights for some quality night nav courses.

Another string to the bow. I’ve just completed the Bushcraft trainers 2 day course with The Wilderness Project, part of the learn outdoors.

https://wilderness-project.org/?_ga=2.118028748.453075434.1727870253-1956882773.1727870253

Covering:

- Knife, tool safety and current UK regulations regarding the carriage of knives
- First Aid equipment
- Varied types of fire woods and wood processing
- Shelter building
- Knots
- Bushcraft camp admin and setup
- Fire safety with groups of adults, young adults and children
- Fire starting by;
Ferro rod
Wire wool and battery
Flint and steel
Bow drill
and magnifying glass
- the use of char-cloth, different Tinder bundles and amber extenders
- Making a bow drill and best wood to use
- Reducing ground sign and post fire procedure
- Food foraging and safety with the accumplished author Gavin Ireland - (books are available from Amazon)
- How to make camp fire bread and other cooking ideas
- making char-cloth, a fantastic product for fire starting.
- Knife, axe sharpening and tool maintenance, as well as other woodcraft fun activities outdoors.

There was such an amazing group of participants from a Welsh youth organisation, as well as Lee Callaghan ‘Outsider Tank’ an ex serviceman from the Royal Regiment of Wales , he’s well worth a look and follow on YouTube, if you all could give his channel a boost.

https://youtu.be/HAV9lsQN5-k?si=EpRe71mmZd3EBG5V

In summary a fantastic course well worth the time and money. Going forward I will be looking at putting on some bushcraft events in the near future.

Went from messing around with some green paracord to something a little more creative, matches her collar 😎

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