ALSS Skills Intensive Courses
with Matt Brummett and Mark Dorsten
Light My Fire!
(Class limit: 12 Students)
May 26-27
Tuition: $395
Instructors: Matt Brummett and Mark Dorsten
Experience a comprehensive immersion into the most alluring of the four elements...fire! A tool that has shaped civilization for millennia, its understanding has all but been lost to modern society. In this two day course students will regain their primal power by exploring modern fire lighting techniques essential for survival scenarios, as well as primitive fire making technologies fostering a greater awareness of how our ancestors did more with less. Unique to ALSS courses, Light My Fire is based “outdoors” yet is not an overnight camping course. Read More ...
The Abo Kitchen: Primitive Cooking Techniques
(Class limit: 12 Students)
June 2-3
Tuition: $395
Instructors: Matt Brummett and Mark Dorsten
No metal pot, no aluminum foil, no hibachi…no problem! Learn to prepare your food using only what Mother Nature provides: plants, rocks, and earth. In this cross-cultural culinary course explore how indigenous peoples used common sense and the materials at hand to turn “raw” opportunities into cooked delicacies. Cooking techniques will range from the simple to the complex so you will be able to cook whatever game, fish, or plants you have procured. Unique to ALSS courses, The Abo Kitchen is based “outdoors”, yet in town at the ALSS school headquarters in Prescott thus this is not an overnight camping course. Read More ...
Catching Critters: Primitive Hunting and Fishing Techniques
(Class limit: 12 students)
August 24-26
$595
Matt Brummett and Mark Dorsten
Above: Mark Dorsten with "Fish on a Stick," 1997.
Unlike a modern survival scenario where getting rescued is the name of the game, indigenous peoples in days past lived off the land. Depending on the bioregion, once basic needs of shelter, water, cutting edges, and fire are met, procuring food becomes a priority. Catching Critters explores several methods of “making meat” used by indigenous peoples around the world. Expand your hunting and gathering tool box of food gathering know-how from traps and spears to fishing techniques. Read More ...
