Dave Wescott

Dave Wescott has compiled old-style camping techniques from some of the great authors on the topic including Dan Beard's Camp Lore and Woodcraft, Warren Miller's Camping Out; James Austin Wilder's Jack-Knife Cookery; and Earnest Thompson Seton's The Birch Bark Roll of Woodcraft. To these camping classics he has added his own methods. The result is a clever new take on this time-honored and popular form of recreation. Director of the Society of Primitive Technology, Dave Wescott is the author of...See more

Dave Wescott has compiled old-style camping techniques from some of the great authors on the topic including Dan Beard's Camp Lore and Woodcraft, Warren Miller's Camping Out; James Austin Wilder's Jack-Knife Cookery; and Earnest Thompson Seton's The Birch Bark Roll of Woodcraft. To these camping classics he has added his own methods. The result is a clever new take on this time-honored and popular form of recreation. Director of the Society of Primitive Technology, Dave Wescott is the author of Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills. He has been a leading figure in the wilderness education industry for over thirty years and is a lifelong enthusiast in primitive technologies. The trail-tough lifestyle of western Americana -- the Spartan simplicity of wood smoke, canvas, and cast iron -- has always appealed to his respect for the past and his belief that less is more. The managing editor for Bulletin of Primitive Technology, Wescott has also been the director of Backtracks and the education director for Boulder Outdoor Survival School. He lives in Rexburg, Idaho, with his wife and four children. See less