1KHO 96: The First Thing You Make is Not Going to be the Best Thing You Make | Survival Skills with Tim Swanson, Owl Eyes Wilderness

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Tim Swanson is the founder of Owl Eyes Wilderness Survival, a “traveling” wilderness survival school that seeks to connect people of all ages to the landscape in hopes to protect and restore our natural world. In this episode we talk about all sorts of survival skills such as shelter building, fire skills, wood carving, foraging, animal tracking, and many others. Tim walks us through how he combines many of these skills together to teach them to children and to adults. If you're close in proximity you can check out Owl Eyes Wilderness Survival in person and if you aren't you can use many of these ideas to learn yourself or incorporate them into kids' birthday parties. Learn more about Owl Eyes Wilderness Survival here >> https://www.owleyeswilderness.com/ Check out Tim's recommended books and games here >> https://www.owleyeswilderness.com/books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Jenny Yerich. I'm the
0:06.1	founder of 1000 hours outside and so excited today for the very first time to
0:11.5	have a survival expert survival school founder is really awesome.
0:18.5	Tim Swanson welcome.
0:20.5	Thank you, thank you so much for having me.
0:22.2	This is awesome what you do.
0:24.2	You have a school called Owl Eyes Wilderness Survival School.
0:29.2	Would you call it a school?
0:30.5	In a way it's a school.
0:31.6	I don't have a physical place because I have land use permission and a whole bunch of public conservation land properties
0:37.6	Yeah, it's like a traveling school Exactly yeah, it's definitely a school but but in a way, it's not.
0:43.5	It's a school without a physical location,
0:45.5	a one specific physical location.
0:47.6	Exactly.
0:48.4	Which is awesome.
0:50.1	It's a traveling wilderness survival school
0:52.3	that seeks to connect people of all ages to the landscape in hopes to protect and restore our natural world.
0:57.5	You're doing such incredible things.
0:59.0	Can you tell us, Tim, how you ended up here?
1:01.5	Did the pandemic play into it at all? Oh it totally did so growing up I was always just into nature that was my thing
1:09.8	So I never really got into it. I'd say. Okay. How were you parented then? Were you just allowed to be outside? Where did you live? Yeah, so I grew up in Pepperill, Massachusetts and I was always outside catching the crickets under the rocks and the walkway there and just, you know, tracking around the yard, things like that.
1:28.7	And I was young and just always wanted kind of like the bug toys and the bird books and stuff. I never wanted like the bug toys and the you know bird books and stuff I never
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