Foxwalkers
What kind of person will you become?
Foxwalkers is rooted in the traditions of the Tracker’s Guild — the path of awareness, patience, resilience, and deep connection to the living world. While students learn skills from every guild at Black Oak Wilderness School, the Tracker’s way shapes the heart of the program: moving carefully, observing deeply, supporting the group, and learning to remain calm and capable in unfamiliar situations. More than anything, Foxwalkers teaches students to pay attention — to the land, to each other, and to the kind of person they are becoming.
Foxwalkers is a 9-month wilderness mentorship program combining weekly evening classes with one immersive field weekend each month, giving students consistent practice and real outdoor experience throughout the school year.
Through a progressive multi-year journey, students develop deep competence in firecraft, archery, tracking, shelter building, navigation, tool use, natural history, teamwork, and leadership. Each returning season brings new challenges, more refined skills, greater confidence, and increasing independence in the outdoors.
But Foxwalkers is about more than wilderness skills.
It’s also a place where students build community, shape culture, and begin defining the kind of people they want to become. Long nights around the fire create space for meaningful conversations about struggle, responsibility, friendship, identity, and what it means to grow into adulthood with competence, integrity, and purpose.
FOXWALKERS FULL YEAR
33% First Cohort Discount
Foxwalkers Year-long teen apprenticeship featuring weekly skill workshops, monthly field weekends, mentorship, and progressive wilderness training that builds confidence, leadership, and real-world capability.
$3000/yr
$2000/yr
Space is limited to 12 students
LED BY EXPERIENCE
I’ve spent over 20 years working across traditional wilderness skills, land-based education, and immersive outdoor instruction.
My background draws from multiple lineages—ranging from traditional skills schools and nature-based mentorship to modern survival systems, risk management, and field-based leadership training. Over the years, I’ve focused deeply on tracking, firecraft, shelter systems, tool use, navigation, foraging, and working directly with natural materials in real environments.
I founded Black Oak Wilderness School to create the kind of learning environment I wished existed when I was younger: one that treats wilderness skills not as novelty or nostalgia, but as meaningful tools for confidence, resilience, creativity, and human connection.
Since 2017, that work has grown from small grassroots classes into large-scale youth and adult programs, including partnerships with public schools serving hundreds of students each week. Alongside that work, I’ve trained in advanced field environments, including SEER-style programs and instruction with military personnel, while continuing to teach everything from intimate mentorship-based intensives to large community gatherings.
Today, the program reflects a deliberate shift toward something more intentional: immersive, story-driven outdoor education that blends technical skill with culture, creativity, mentorship, and adventure.
The goal has never been simply to teach people how to survive outdoors. It’s to help people become more capable, observant, grounded, and connected—to themselves, to each other, and to the living world around them.
