Course Series Overview
"When we track, we pick up a string. At the far end of that string a being is moving, existing, still connected to the track that we gaze upon. The animal's movement is still contained in that track, along with the smallest of external and internal details. As we follow these tracks, we begin to become the very animal we track. Our awareness expands from the animal we have become to the landscape it reacted to and is played by. We feel the influence of all things that surround us and our awareness expands from our consciousness to the mind of the animal and finally to the very cosmos. In tracking and awareness, then, there can never be a seperation. One without the other is but half a story, and incomplete picture, thus an incomplete understanding. It is the track that connects us to that grand consciousness and expands us to limitless horizons."
-- The Science and Art of Tracking
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Course Prerequisites
Advanced Tracking and Awareness
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Course Description
Students interested in the art of Search and Rescue will find this class a much needed expansion for their tracking skills. It is not necessary to be a member of any search and rescue group, law enforcement agency or military branch; all that is required is a passion for expanding your ability beyond the tracking of animals. This class will reach far beyond the basic elements of search and rescue. Students will learn forensic tracking, the reading of forensic photographs, crime scene analysis, fugitive tracking and counter tracking, as well as how the details of the pressure release studies apply to humans. High speed tracking will be an essential element, especially where speed may mean the difference between life and death for someone who is lost. Many of these techniques were of utmost importance to the Apache Scouts, who spent a great deal of their time analyzing human tracks in order to keep their clans safe from potential dangers and conflicts.
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