The Green River Boys is primarily focused on imparting young people with traditional mountain man survival skills, including:
Firestarting – creating a fire in primitive conditions, with flint and steel, bow drill and/or hand drill
Rifle – basic muzzleloader/black powder riflery, including loading, shooting, and cleaning/maintenance
Knife – knife skills and safety, including proper cutting techniques, carving, etc. Throwing knives and throwing knife theory.
Tomahawk – tomahawk/hatchet skills and safety, including proper cutting techniques, carving, etc. Throwing tomahawks and throwing tomahawks theory.
Archery and Atlatl – use of the bow & arrows, safe shooting of arrows, target shooting, woods walk and atlatls.
First Aid – basic wilderness first aid skills including kit familiarity and use, techniques – airway, bleeding, shock-prevention, etc.
Cooking over Fire – cooking meat over a fire, using a boiler to cook food, purify water, etc.
Shelter Building – creating a safe, secure shelter in the woods using natural materials
Stalking/Tracking – finding animal sign and tracking man and beast in the wilderness, covering your tracks, stalking wild game
Wilderness Survival – surviving in the woods of your area. Finding food and water, building an overnight shelter, signaling for help, wilderness wayfaring
Hunting & Trapping – hunting small and large game with period weapons. Trapping using snares and traps – both steel traps (modern and period) and traps made from natural materials
Caches – hiding your food, hides, and goods in the wilderness. Keeping your plunder safe and sound from man and beast
Each skill session/training is focused on the mountaineer learning the skill safely and effectively, with an emphasis on skills mastery and learning the ability to teach others and pass the skill on. Though everyone will be encouraged to practice and learn these skills, skills mastery is achieved when the mountaineer has the ability to teach the skill to others.
