The Adirondack Primitive Skills Group practices prehistoric/Aboriginal/Native American handicrafts and pre-industrial technology. Skills that relate to living off the land, often using handcrafted tools made from naturally gathered materials. (gathering and foraging native plants and animals for food, skinning and preparing game, basketry and pot making, constructing shelters, fire making, trapping, and useful plant identification). In addition, the APSG also practices Bushcraft, Wilderness Survival, Self Reliance, and Traditonal Living, Ultra-light camping and Bugging-Out
Members (Enthusiasts) range from beginner to advance skills. There is no age, race, or gender discrimination. All with an interest in Adirondack Primitive Skills are welcome. Ultralight backpackers & campers are welcome as well. Those interested in the Catskill Region are welcome as well. Members are encouraged to create meetups in the Catskill Region or any other wild areas of New York as well.
Please do not confuse us with Primitive Skills fanatics who spend a day, weekend, week, month, or season in the wilderness surviving off the land. We will strive to be much more concerned with the fun and social aspects of meeting as a group for a day, or multi-day event teaching, learning, and practicing Adirondack Primitive Skills. To do this, we will incorporate modern day Adirondack camping and or hiking with our interest of Adirondack Primitive Skills. Some events may require spending evenings in a tent, lean-to, or primitive shelter.
Our group will not break any NYSDEC laws regarding the wilderness, its flora and or flauna. Our skills will be more of the educational flavor versus the practical application flavor, especially when it comes to unnecessary killing of animals, trees, etc. In addition, I seek advice and permits from Rangers for everything that i question. Our meetups which will concetrate on specific skills which will first be researched as to whether or not the skill is allowed to be practiced in the Adirondack Park and/or NYS.
I live in Long Lake, NY. I am an avid outdoors man. I hike, trek, backpack, mountain climb, spelunk, camp, snowshoe, X-Ski, geocache, etc.
On another note, I am not a Hunter or trapper (although i am an avid Trout fisherman). I have nothing against hunters anf trappers who follow the rules. I just dont hunt or trap myself. My interests lie in the ways the people lived self sufficiently in the Adirondacks on the bare minimal necessities. Merely for educational purposes. I seek others with the same interests.
At the same time, my interests also rely in the things i mentioned i liked to do above. As i stated in the Group's description, we are about using the Adirondacks with modern times equipment, while learning about our ancestral ways.
We can practice fire making, but not rely on it. We can practice eating wild plants and fungi, but still have our dehydrated meals.
We can practice traps and snares.....BUT WILL NOT leave them out to actually catch animals. As you know, this is illegal in NYS, and there is no need to kill in animal for the simple fact that we would like to know if its possible or not. WE KNOW IT IS!
We will always practice the principles of leave no trace.
October 29, 2011 at 10:00 AM, 3 Hunter Gatherers attended
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"I'm down for this. Do we need our own kayak or something to paddle? Maybe some of us should get there early and try to build a raft. I'll start looking for kayaks just in case."
"It is very interesting. There are a lot of cliffs and caves to explore. I am planning on going to check it out on the 3rd. If anyone wants to join me you are welcome to. If not I will let everyone know my findings."
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