".... The Sacred State of Awareness is not something to live part of the time or when need dictates....
Awareness is a way of life, a Philosophy unto itself, and must be lived Always...."

Grandfather - 1962

Course Schedule

Scheduled Courses
Online Courses
New to the Tracker School?

Your journey starts with either the Standard or Philosophy 1 course.

Standard
Philosophy 1
Learn to survive in any environment lavishly. You will learn how to build a primitive shelter, find water, make a bow drill fire and find food. Learn from folks for whom wilderness survival is not just a hobby but a way of life.

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Upcoming Courses:

Caretaker Class
May 11 - May 17, 2025 | New Jersey | $1000

The Caretaker Class at Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracker School gives you a practical, hands-on introduction to living in balance with nature and taking care of the land...

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Prerequisites Standard

Standard
Jun 8 - Jun 14, 2025 | New Jersey | $900

Learn to survive in any environment lavishly. You will learn how to build a primitive shelter, find water, make a bow drill fire and find food. Learn from folks for whom wilderness survival is not just a hobby but a way of life.

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Prerequisites None

Advanced Standard
Jun 15 - Jun 21, 2025 | New Jersey | $1000

Dive more deeply into the skills necessary to make any wilderness environment your home. Live in a debris hut, make your own wood-burned bowl and spoon, lean to make a bow and pressure flake arrowheads out of bottle bottoms. Rediscover these primitive skills in order to enrich your modern life.

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Prerequisites Standard

Advanced Tracking and Awareness
Jun 22 - Jun 28, 2025 | New Jersey | $1000

This course expands greatly on the tracking skills covered in your Standard class. You will cut months off of your dirt time by learning the most effective ways to put the Pressure Release Studies into practice. A better ...

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Prerequisites Standard

Scout
Jul 13 - Jul 19, 2025 | New Jersey | $1000

This course puts all of your existing skills to the test by recreating the Apache Scout experience. You will live as the Scout did - travelling away from the "tribe" with little in the way of tools and equipment, gathering ...

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Prerequisites Advanced Standard and Advanced Tracking and Awareness

Philosophy 3
Aug 10 - Aug 16, 2025 | New Jersey | $1000

This course goes well beyond the limits of Philosophy II in order to focus on the many applications of spirituality within a wilderness setting. By using the same teaching methods in the same locations where Grandfather taught, ...

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Prerequisites Philosophy 2

Philosophy 4
Aug 17 - Aug 23, 2025 | New Jersey | $1000

This class teaches the further integration of philosophy and spirituality into your everyday life. These advanced concepts, techniques and workshops are designed to bring you farther along your spiritual path and into a more dynamic ...

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Prerequisites Philosophy 3