Chad CliffordM.A., B.HRPT, B.Sc., B.Ed
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See photosof BBC survivor series.
 See photosof building a Inuit Kayak
Barefoot climbing over L. Superior
 Playing native flute on shores of Superior
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Ice-climbing near Thunder Bay
 Running rapids with student in Agoki
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Daycare awareness tour
 Ottawa R.
 Voyageur canoeing
Igloo building
 Co-leading trip with Tom Potter on Kopka R.

Besides taking numerous courses by noted instructors as Tom Brown Jr. and Mors Kohanski, prior and since, I continued to learn outdoor skills from various teachers. As a graduate of Lakehead University in Natural Science, Outdoor Recreation (& Parks and Tourism), graduate studies at the University of Alberta (nature experience research) along with a teacher Education degree, I have worked hard to develop my interest in studying/facilitating quality, wilderness experiences.

My wife Tania Marsh, brother Barrie Clifford and I (Chad Clifford) founded the Alba Wilderness School in the 1990's. Although we have moved on, Alba still operates now under the instruction of Howard Clifford (story-teller and long-time honorary member of Alba). I have since been involved in sharing / learning traditional skills in Edmonton, the Canadian Arctic, and am now back in Eastern Ontario.

Among the traditional skills learned or shared in the past include: bow and drill fire (rubbing sticks), traditional & emergency shelters--quinzhee and igloo too, winter camping & travel, wild edible and useful plants, animal track identification, traditional bow and arrow making, brain-tanning, drum & rattles, snowshoe building, various other wood and leather craft, native-flute music, Inuit kayak & birch bark canoe building, wilderness survival techniques. More recently, I have spent time in the Arctic teaching at the elementary and high-school in an Inuit community. Here too, I have had the luxury of learning from elders on aspects of survival living skills. Wilderness Rhythms Traditional Skills Camping course Instruction survival track outdoor adventure algonquin CanadaResource for traditional wilderness skills, craft, and nature lore. Camping workshops and Instruction in survival, tracks and outdoor awareness and adventure. Located in Ontario Canada wilderness camping course program instruction Ontario traditional Canada bow skills rhythms rhythm mature 55+ vacation holiday adventure authentic aborigional camp leadership experience interpretation outdoors outdoor nature survival tracking track tracks meditation leisure art leisure recreation recreate primitive chad clifford spiritual native solitude tourism indian awareness inspire inspiration inspired Ottawa algongquin resource alba wilderness school