Bay Area Rangers & Mariners: Homeschool Ages 12-15
A Weekly Nature Immersion Course for Homeschoolers
Choose your guild..
The Rangers Guild Wilderness Survival, Wildlife Tracking & the Curriculum of Shadows: Nature Awareness & Stealth
The Mariners Guild Boating and Kayaking, Fishing and Sea Harvest and The Watercourse Way: Marine Ecology and Ocean Life
The Trackers Difference
Trackers takes it up a notch. We believe you learn more when truly challenged. This is not your usual outdoor program. In the Rangers & Mariners you make primitive shelters, craft your own bows, particpate in live action stealth scenarios, learn DIY skills, train wilderness survival, train mariner skills on the water and much more.
Real Skills with Real Instructors
Our Guild Mentors are experts in both education and their craft. They are there to mentor you in the ways of the Rangers & Mariners Guilds. We are looking for teens ready for the challenge and excited about exceeding already high expectations. The Trackers way can be epic, adventurous, extremely difficult and also deeply satisfying.
Seasonal Session Sign up for one season at a time. Monthly payment plans and limited scholarships avialable. Contact Us for more information
Spring Sessions January 14-May 27, 2011 (includes overnight camp out, dates TBA)
Taster Day Sign up for the first day of class, no commitment. Then sign up for the full session. Please note that if you enroll after the taster day, seasonal tutition is still full price in addition to the taster day tuition.
Monthly payment plan and limited scholarships Contact Us.
Register for Rangers & Mariners Winter-Spring 2011
| Class Full Join Waitlist |
Ages 12-15
$1200
includes overnight camp out, date TBA East Bay January 14-May 27, 2011 every Friday 9:30am-3pm berkeley aquatic park and Tilden Park |
| Contact Us to register |
Ages 12-15
$60
Taster Day January 14, 2010 9:30am-3pm berkeley aquatic park and Tilden Park |
Our Teaching Philosophy
Trackers takes it up a notch. We are under the belief that students learn more when truly challenged. The canned response of environmental education is often simply learning games, cue cards, props and educational kits. From kayaking in the San Juans to building a primitive living village as a rite of passage, Trackers offers the most creative and inspiring programs available.
Your Instructor
Greg Sommers Lead Instructor & Skill Specialist
Greg was born and raised in the mists and rain of the Pacific Northwest. He grew up roaming the wild places of Puget sound where he developed an appreciation of there wildness. These ramblings often entailed sleeping under the stars, matchless fires, and pursuing the trails of various animals.
The study of bushcraft and animal tracking have remained some of his life long pursuits, which he has been sharing with adults and youth alike. He has completed a Bachelors of Science from the Evergreen State College as well other trainings in the study of nature and bushcraft.
Greg is also well traveled, having taught bushcraft and traditional skills internationally. Currenty he teaches with Trackers Earth and is the in lead instructor for the adult wilderness skills Natives Eyes immersion program with the Regenerative Design Institute.
Ages 12-15 Rangers & Mariners includes
Woodland activities...
• live action strategic archery tag with foam arrows
• physical conditioning
• stealth and camouflage
• martial arts and awareness
• woodland Ecology
• wild edible plants and identification
• survival skills
• local woodland history
• maps and compass
• Woodland camping tips
Crafts such as...
• flintknapping
• bowmaking
• natural building
• atlatl making
• hidetanning
Maritime activities...
• small boat use (sailing, paddling, motoring)
• sailing
• fishing and crabbing
• knots, ropes, pulleys and nets
• navigation
• ocean ecology
• edible sealife and identification




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