My mission is to make nature an enjoyable, comfortable, safe, and accessible place for women of all ages and experience levels. I am working to combat our systemic epidemic of nature deficit disorder by helping people reconnect to the natural world and traditional practices and ways of living.
In the summer of 2025, I am teaching three week, full immersion women’s bushcraft and canoe courses in Northern Maine, as well as weeklong bushcraft skills courses in Vermont.
Programs
Women’s Bushcraft and Canoe | 3 Week Immersion
Women’s Bushcraft and Canoe | 3 Week Immersion
Week 1: Bushcraft skills
Week 2: Canoe skills
Week 3: Put all of your new skills to use with a trip down the destination Allagash waterway!
Bushcraft Week at Bolton
Join us for a week full of crafts and skills at Bolton Valley.
Learn traditional fire making skills, basket weaving, plant identification and more!
Latest from the Blog
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Women’s Bushcraft & Canoe: Podcast with Tim Smith
Sam and Tim Smith, the founder of Jack Mountain Bushcraft School, discuss Sam’s experience at the XI Expedition Instructor course, and introduce the upcoming Women’s Bushcraft and Canoe | 3-Week Immersion course that is new at Jack Mountain summer of 2025! Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts
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Women’s Bushcraft and Canoe | 3-Week Immersion: Course Creation
I dream of a community where people are not reliant on escaping through their handheld devices and modern technology, but rather find entertainment in watching the birds and crafting useful items out of natural materials. Where instead of pulling out a cell phone and opening up the maps app, people are accustomed to using the…
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Six Months in the Northern Maine Woods: The Social Side
I come from a small, liberal hippie town in southern Oregon where we drink maté and meditate in circles and everyone attends the local ecstatic dances. Then I moved to Boulder Colorado where I found a lot more of the same kinds of people. It was common to find yourself processing past-life traumas and eye…
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Exhausted to Energized: The Unexpected Food That Restored my Vitality
Reclaiming my Health I was consistently pushing my body to do hard things during my time at Jack Mountain Bushcraft School. I had bare feet in the dirt daily, I had constant fresh air in my lungs and delicious clean well water to drink. There were so many aspects of my lifestyle that had me…
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Six Months in the Northern Maine Woods: Becoming Unphasable
The six months I spent in the woods of northern Maine at Jack Mountain Bushcraft School, were immensely transformative—not only in terms of learning practical wilderness skills but also in terms of the emotional growth that occurred for me. Before I embarked on my journey to Maine, I faced a difficult period in my life…