Twice a year we run our flagship Wilderness Immersion Course. We call this course “The Gate”. No matter what your experience and skill level, we bring you back and guide you through it to enable you to have a deeper understanding and deeper connection with the environment, the quarry and, fundamentally, allows you to explore your own skills, fears and senses in a primeval way.
We had some great and willing participants and their observations and enthusiasm was quite extraordinary. Badgers, foxes, deer and rodents were seen at very close quarters. Despite a downpour as soon as the participants were “immersed” in the forest, only one returned (a good decision in the circumstances). The others were rewarded by a series of close-encounters they will probably never forget.
We were all fortunate enough to witness the start of the Fallow deer rut by hearing some bellowing. Our trail cam captured the exact moment when a Fallow buck started calling to his harem.
As usual we had some excellent assistants who threw themselves into everything from stocking up wood for the fire to actually delivering parts of a session.
As usual the backdrop of Hatfield Forest produced a mobile classroom full of feeding signs, scat and various species for observation and discussion. It is not difficult to relax, slow-down and become one with nature in an environment such as this.
The next course will start in two-weeks. It’s the Woodland Tracker that will expand on the tracking skills that the Immersion course started. If you would like to come on the course, please book online here… http://www.woodlife.co.uk/2009/03/17/fbt/
Thanks for the visit.
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