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Light My Fire!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Light My Fire!

Create Fire from the Stone Age to the Space Age

Class limited to 12 students
April 27-28, 2024
Tuition: $765  
Instructors: Cody Lundin and Mark Dorsten

Immerse yourself into the most alluring of the four elements...fire! A tool that has shaped civilizations for millennia, its understanding has all but been lost to modern society. Make no mistake. Knowing how to create and sustain a fire can save your life in a survival scenario - in town or wilderness. On this two-day course you will regain your power by exploring modern fire lighting techniques essential for survival scenarios and primitive fire making technologies fostering a greater awareness of how our ancestors did more with less. Knowing both enables you to be more effective at making fire wherever you are.

Modern Fire: from flint to Fritos; make fire using cotton, duct tape, toothpaste and a can, paper, wood, metal matches, lighters, magnesium, chemicals, optics, and more. Learn fire physics, techno-tinders, and how to make fool-proof home-made tinder. Create your own flint and steel kit along with char cloth making made simple.

Fire from Sticks: create a functional bowdrill and handdrill set from a natural environment, experience using a fire saw, strap drill, pump drill and more. How to make the all powerful tinder bundle, understanding the fire triangle, transporting fire, and recognizing nature’s fire starters.  

Fire as a Tool: for disinfecting water, cooking, hollowing out wood, thermoregulation, and torches for light.

Fire Respect: fire safety, extinguishing, uses for carbon and ash, and leaving no trace of your fire’s presence.

The Light My Fire course is taught at a location that allows you to bring a tent, an RV or a camper. Camping is free at the course site during the class. In addition, we are close enough to town that students can opt to get a hotel each night. No hiking is required for this course.