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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
