SAM SMITH
Sam is a Primitive Skills instructor, Survival instructor, and Butcher, Unknowingly starting his outdoor career when he was 14 years old in an outdoor program for foster kids Sam has experience in numerous environments in the United States from the hot and humid south east to the alpine regions of Montana. Whether hiking sections of the Appalachian Trail, canoeing rivers in Georgia and Montana, Primitive living in Georgia, Colorado, and Montana, Living in the mountains for months at a time under a tarp, or car camping in a new place. Sam is always ready for the next adventure. Sam has a variety of primitive living skills experience as well as modern survival skills experience.
Specialties- Primitive Living Skills including hide tanning, Friction fire, Buckskin clothing making, Bone work, net making.
LEARNING EXPERIENCE- Sam has taken classes and lectures at skills gatherings such as the Rabbitstick conference. He also Attended and taught at a primitive skills school for 2.5 years.
INSTRUCTORS:
Cody lundin- Survival kit, Fire making, Gourd Canteen making instructor. Owner of the Aboriginal Skills School, author of ”98.6 degrees art of keeping your ass alive”, “When all hell breaks loose”,
Tom Elpel- Botany, Plant ID, and Canoing Instructor. Owner of Green University LLC, author to numerous books including best seller “Botany in a day”, owner of HOPS PRESS, and Outdoor Wilderness Living School.
Tyler White- Trapping, Pack frame, and Bucksaw instructor. Soldier, Primitive Skills instructor, Modern Survival Skills instructor, outdoor guide, content creator for several Youtube channels including Survival Dispatch, Tjack Survival, Blade HQ, Survivopedia, Boulder outdoor survival school.
Mark Santamaria- Hide tanning instructor
Kris Reed- Buckskin Sewing instructor. Co author of “Foraging the mountain west”, instructor at Green University LLC
Barns- Bison tanning Instructor for Green University, Owner of Montana Survival Seed
Gary Steele, Bow/Atlatl instructor for Green University LLC
Joshua Enyart- Bamboo Fire Saw instructor. Owner of the Grey Bearded Green Beret School and youtube channel. Joshua Served in the special forces for a number of years and taught as the pathfinder school before starting his own school.
Chris Rosa- STOP THE BLEED Instructor. Flight/Combat medic.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE-
Sam has been teaching for several years either on his own, at gatherings and events, and for a school. He has taught for
GREEN UNIVERSITY LLC
Rabbitstick Primitive Skills Confrence in Idaho
Between the Rivers gathering in Washington
Bozeman Renaissance Fair
KIDS PROGRAMS FOR OWLS SCHOOL
RABBITSTICK 2024 INSTRUCTOR PHOTO
front row in the center Sam can be seen.
TEACHING BUCKSKIN SEWING TO A GROUP OF KIDS FOR OWLS SCHOOL
BUCKSKIN TANNING CLASS
CO-TEACHING A RABBIT PROCESSING AND TANNING CLASS AT BETWEEN THE RIVERS GATHERING
FELLOW INSTRUCTORS AT RABBITSTICK
BOW FISHING FOR CARP
Teaching a student to blow a tinder bundle to flame in a bowdrill fire class at Green University LLC
TEACHING KIDS FRICTION FIRE FOR OWLS SCHOOL
Group photo of Sam and friends on the yellowstone river with dugout canoes and primitve gear.
Group photo after a river clean up. friends got together to remove trash out of the jefferson river in Montana.
Sam holding his first tanned hide with pride as it came off the smoke.
A photo of Sam sleeping in the early morning on an island in the middle of the yellowstone river. Shadow is the puppy and he has his most prized stick.
Sam performing a hand drill fire in the backcountry of Montana.
Snap shot out on the water.
Appalachian trail 2018. lunch break.
A photo of Sam on a survival trip.
caught off guard preparing for a survival class.
After class photo with Cody Lundin. Rabbitstick 2021
After class photo with Tyler White. Rabbitstick 2021
Photo with my Flint knapping instructor Nick Hall (far left) and Backtracks owner David Wescott (center). Rabbitstick 2021
Escaping the rain on a trapper era canoe trip.
Sam and Mark Santamaria (hide tanning instructor)
Talking about the smoking process in a hide tanning class.
hiking around in Washington state.
hiking trip in the tobacco root mountains
Working on tanning a bison hide
Survival trip in Georgia catching catfish.
Scraping a deer hide
Cleaning Carp on a bow fishing trip