Frontier Bushcraft

Navigation is not an optional extra in the outdoors.

It is one of the core pillars of real competence.

Being able to read the landscape, understand where you are, choose safe and efficient routes, and move confidently in poor visibility changes everything. It alters how you feel in wild places. It shifts you from following to leading. It removes a layer of uncertainty that too many people quietly carry.

Our Wilderness Wayfinder Navigation Course runs at most once per year.

For 2026, we now have just four places remaining.

This 6-day field course goes way beyond a basic map-and-compass weekend. It is an immersion in practical navigation as it is actually used: in complex terrain, under time pressure, in deteriorating conditions, and on journeys where decisions have consequences.

The instructional team is:

• Paul Kirtley
• James Bath
• Henry Landon

All three are UK Mountain Leader qualified, meaning their navigation has been formally tested to a high standard.

More importantly, between them they bring decades of expedition and wilderness travel experience from the UK and far beyond, applying navigation in forests, mountains, bushlands, waterways and other remote regions where getting it wrong has real consequences.

If navigation is still a weak point for you, or if you want to raise your level to something genuinely solid and field-proven, this is your opportunity.

With only four places left, once they are gone, that will be it until the next time we run it.

Details and booking information are linked below.

https://frontierbushcraft.com/courses/wilderness-wayfinder-navigation-course/

Due to a cancellation, one place has become available on this July's Woodcrafter course with Paul Kirtley. It was previously fully booked. Full details and booking via the link below...

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When you book a course like this, the instructor matters.

Our 6-day Elementary Wilderness Bushcraft Course is led by James Bath, Senior Instructor at Frontier Bushcraft.

James has been teaching bushcraft since 2005.

He has instructed with Frontier Bushcraft for 15 years, as well as previously working with Ray Mears and Lars Fält.

That is not a weekend certification. It is time served in the craft.

On this course, James will lead you through a fully immersive week living outdoors, covering the cornerstone systems of wilderness bushcraft:

• Water sourcing and failsafe purification protocols
• Tarp setup and natural shelter considerations
• Fire lighting with sparks and friction
• Fire structure and management for real outcomes
• Safe and effective knife use, carving and sharpening
• Natural cordage from plant fibres, roots and bark
• Tree and plant identification for utility, food and safety
• Fishing methods, legal traps and small game preparation
• Applying skills realistically while living and moving in the woods

No prior experience is required.

What is required is effort, focus and a willingness to fully engage with a demanding but highly rewarding week.

James has worked with hundreds of students over two decades. He understands how to build skill progressively, layer by layer, so that by the end of the week you are not simply exposed to techniques, but capable and confident in applying them.

If you want a serious grounding in wilderness bushcraft, taught by someone who has genuinely devoted years to mastering and teaching it, this is where to begin.

Click the link below for more details...

https://frontierbushcraft.com/courses/elementary-wilderness-bushcraft/

Due to a cancellation, one place has become available on this summer's Woodcrafter course with Paul Kirtley. It was previously fully booked. Full details and booking via the link below...

The Woodcrafter - Frontier Bushcraft Wilderness Axe Skills And Woodland Campcraft Whether your focus is carving, camping and camp craft, or wilderness expeditions, much of bushcraft - and specifically woodcraft - is made more viable through the use of an axe. By employing an axe, laborious and time consuming jobs are completed much mor...

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The Woodcrafter - Frontier Bushcraft Wilderness Axe Skills And Woodland Campcraft Whether your focus is carving, camping and camp craft, or wilderness expeditions, much of bushcraft - and specifically woodcraft - is made more viable through the use of an axe. By employing an axe, laborious and time consuming jobs are completed much mor...

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