A weekend immersion program for your schedule.
Featuring 4 seasonal campouts and 6 monthly fields days.
Join the Trackers Village! Reconnect with nature while learning outdoor skills to share with your family, students, and friends. This is more than a class, together we create a mentoring village of outdoor enthusiasts, parents, educators, and seniors.
Trackers Elements
With expert Trackers Guides and a fellowship of like-minded colleauges, the Trackers Village Immersion teaches these core elements:
Wilderness Survival & Forest Craft Learn skills of shelter building, lighting fire with no matches, and more while immersed in the arts of wilderness survival. Develop focus with archery and practice woodworking for forest craft.
Tracking & Wayfinding Train in the ancient art of tracking and nature awareness. Follow wildlife into their own world as you trail elk, bobcat, fox, and more! Hone your orienteering and navigation skills by compass, map, and natural methods.
Foraging & Outdoor Cooking Delve into the incredible world of edible plants. Learn skills of identification and safe harvest of wild foods. Master campfire cooking outdoors by using ducth ovens, local foods, and your own creativity.
Homesteading & Folk Craft Get hands-on experience in crafts of woodworking, basketmaking, and even cheese making. Tend to the Wilders Garden, discovering a world where wild plants grow around our homes and our gardens grow with the wild forest.
Fishing & Boating Fish using different styles and techniques. Seek out other aquatic foods such as crayfish, bullfrogs, and more! Get experience paddling and playing on the water. Practice essential water safety and rescue skills.
Mentoring & Nature Connection
Mentoring is at the heart of our program. We get to the know the land like it's family while sharing epic stories around the campfire. Together we can build a village that cultivates a deep connection to community and place for every generation.
Location
All program days take place at epic, local wilderness sites. Trackers provides a free shuttle service leaving from our primary urban location.
Overnight Campouts In Fall, Spring, and Summer overight campouts are primarily tent camping at our private sites. In winter the overnight is at a cabin based site.
Saturday Field Days Typically sites are under 1 hour of Portland. Some coastal foraging and fishing sites may be further.
Our Guides
Along with top Trackers Guides, every Expedition is led by Edan Kahane, Trackers Immersion Director with Tony Deis, Trackers Founder, and additional leading Trackers experts.
Edan Kahane Growing up in New York, Israel, Indiana, North Carolina, and Massachusetts, Edan is a born explorer. He has studied and worked as an outdoor leader and educator since his early twenties. After earning his Master’s Degree from the University of Chicago, Edan began with Trackers Portland in 2016 as a high level guide. He served as a founding teacher in our 3 day-a-week Forest School and as the Trackers Bay Area Regional Director. Returning to Portland he became Director of Field Operations, and is now the Primary Guide and Manager at Trackers Immersion, leading in its high-level mentoring curriculum. Edan is passionate about sharing his years of experience studying tracking, wilderness skills, and leading edge educational methods into our premier outdoor experience.
Tony Deis Tony is the founder of Trackers Earth. After reading Waldon he left high school when he was 14 years old to train in the arts of awareness, forest-craft skills, primitive skills, and tracking. Tony believes that kids are far more capable than the modern world allows. He fosters the opportunity for them to be given greater freedom and greater responsibility so that they can create a better and more wild world. He stewards Trackers as though it were an extension of his large Italian family. Every member is responsible for creating a better world for the other members to live and bring new members into.
Additional Guides are directly chosen based on extensive experience in outdoor programming, speciality skillsets, and seasoned expertise.
