Urban Outdoor Skills

What are Outdoor Skills?

When we speak of Outdoor or Wilderness Skills we usually mean specific skills and techniques designed to provide the basic necessities of human life in the outdoor or wilderness such as water, shelter and food.

The range of typical outdoor skills includes things like emergency shelters, fire making, hunting, navigation, tracking, using makeshift tools to name a few.

Those skills can be extremely helpful if you like camping or do a lot of outdoor activities such as hiking, climbing, offroading, etc... They're also good to know if an emergency situation such as getting lost while hiking or finding yourself stuck in specific environments (desert, mountains, forest) should occur..

Primitive skills go even further.

Primitive skills are those skills that relate to living off of the wilderness.

Examples of primitive skills include: knowing and foraging native plants (Wild Food) and hunting/trapping animals for food, skinning and preparing game, bow making, creating stone tools such as knifes, basketry , pot making, fire making and water filtration.

In America, most of the primitive skills emulate Native-American skills while in Europe, Bronze Age and Prehistoric techniques are often used