Survive & Thrive in the Wild with Melanie Sawyer
Tannery Pond Center presents: Survive & Thrive in the Wild with Melanie Sawyer
Saturday, June 22 | 10 AM - 3 PM
Cost $25 per person
Details
All ages welcomed, minimum participants: 2, Maximum participants: 10
Please dress for the weather as the majority of the class will be held outdoors behind Tannery Pond Center. If raining, please bring rain gear. Feel free to bring your own supply of bug repellent.
RSVP please call 518-251-2505 or email director@tannerypondcenter.org to reserve your spot. Payment is due cash or check made out to Tannery Pond Center by June 15.
Schedule
Class 10 AM - 12:30 PM
Lunch 12:30 - 1 PM - Bring a brown bag lunch!
Class 1-3 PM
Summary of the Workshop The workshop is designed for beginner to intermediate skilled participants. The morning takes students through a couple of really successful traps and snaring techniques, finishing with learning how to source correct tinder and create fire with a ferro rod, flint and steel and Fresnel lens (sun permitting) or chemical reaction if not. Each Student will walk away with a Basic Fire Kit of Ferro Rod and tinder pouches.
Melanie Sawyer was born in the Cotswolds in England but her home for the last 23 years is in New York State. She lives off grid in the beauty and wilderness of the 6 million acre Adirondack State Park. Her partner, Brian (mixed blood Mohawk, Irish & Scottish) built their beautiful off grid home on the top of what they call Thunderhawk mountain from scratch back in the early 2000's. They have their own drilled well, solar power for electricity and a propane powered back up generator for wintery days. Heating is provided by a wood burning stove. They have all the amenities of a normal home without being tied to the grid.
For as long as Melanie could remember she has always been completely fascinated about all things to do with foraging, wilderness survival and history. This led her to create an immersive 18 Century history program called THUNDERHAWK LIVING HISTORY SCHOOL, so named because Thunderhawk has always been what her family calls the mountain that they live on. Thunderhawk Living History School teaches at local schools, at universities and colleges, in museums and in the Adirondack Lodge.
Melanie is part of the History Channels Season 10 ALONE Show. She and 9 other survivalists were dropped in the sub-arctic tundra of the Canadian Shield – home to black bear, wolves, and moose – enduring bone-chilling temperatures to last as long as they could with just ten survival items and enough camera gear to self-document their experience. Her knowledge of history during the 1700's here in the Adirondacks and wild foraging skills helped her survive when others could not. She will share her knowledge of surviving in the wilderness with workshop participants.
