The bush living skills and traditional crafts Adam first discovered as a boy have come to define his entire adult career as a UK based bushcraft instructor and guide.
Honing these skills through 14 years of instructing created a desire to gain validity in what he was passing on to students and is reflected in the significant amount of time both living and teaching these skills in the context of wilderness travel and training courses.
Adam recognised early on that central to bushcraft is an understanding of plants and their applications. This has led to a lifelong fascination with the uses of natural materials for outdoor living. Opting for wool blankets over sleeping bags, natural shelters instead of tents, wood fires over stoves and wherever possible handmade clothing and equipment. This has helped to temper his instruction with a measure of realism.
Pursuing ever increasing reliance on nature, a passion for so called ‘primitive skills’ developed and has led Adam to write and deliver many courses on topics including buckskin making, fur tanning, natural cordage and glues, tool making, bow making, bone and antler work, weaving, and bark crafts.
Never truly satisfied with a short trip into the outdoors Adam has spent months at a time living in Sweden’s forests. He has spent nine months living off grid in the Canadian bush, where working as an assistant snowshoe guide, he has covered more than 300 miles by snowshoe and moccasins in remote wilderness.
Collaborative work with other instructors, schools and organisations across Europe and Canada gives Adam a unique perspective to reflect on how bushcraft and wilderness journeys are conveyed and enables him to relate to a diverse audience of students in meeting their learning desires and needs.
