Advanced Nature Awareness (Backpacking Marble Mountain Wilderness)
About this program
Class Prerequisite: Must have taken Nature Awareness (Mt. Shasta)
* Students need to be physically capable to carry their own 30-40 pound backpack through rough terrain 7+ miles per day. *
Continuing a decades long tradition, this backpacking trip is the advanced version of the Nature Awareness class taught in Mount Shasta. This class is held in the Marble Mountain Wilderness, where students will be setting up a base camp and going on lightweight hikes throughout the area. Through exploration and meditation in the wilderness, students will sharpen their awareness and learn to commune with nature in a much deeper way.
Skills Covered
- Backpacking Skills including packing, cooking, and camp set-up.
- Navigating through the Wilderness
- Nature Observation
- Methods of immersing oneself in nature
- Movement in nature, including stalking and fox walking
- Tracking basics and identification, animal signs, trails, runs, scat, etc.
- Wild edible and useful plants and identification, gathering and eating
- Animal identification and animal behavior
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