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About The Instructors
Tony Nester
Tony Nester is the primary instructor for all
courses. He has taught survival for the National
Transportation & Safety Board, National Weather
Service,
U.S. Military Special Operations Units and for
private corporations. His survival
training company, begun in 1989, has been
featured in numerous
media outlets including on NBC
News, The Travel Channel, Maxim
Magazine, Backpacker, The New York
Times, and the Discovery Channel.
In addition to extensive experience in
survival, Tony has a BA in Anthropology and is
an Emergency Medical Tech (EMT-B). He is the
author of numerous
books on outdoor survival and
writes a popular monthly column for Outside
Magazine Online. |
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Tony
has been a Survival Instructor and Outdoor Consultant for: |
| National
Weather Service |
National
Transportation &
Safety Board (NTSB) |
Popular
Mechanics |
| FAA |
US
Border Patrol |
Maxim
Magazine |
| Army
Special Operations |
US Air
Force |
Travel
Channel's
Bizarre Foods Show |
| National
Geographic |
Outside
Magazine |
Reader's
Digest |
| FOX News |
Ojibwa
Indian Tribe |
Backpacker Magazine |
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 Mike Masek Mike Masek is a
wilderness skills instructor, herbalist, and ethnobotanist living in Flagstaff, Arizona.
He has been exploring the canyons and
deserts of the American Southwest for 30
years and is currently focusing on the
traditional edible and medicinal plants of
the Colorado Plateau. His field studies have
also taken him across the US, India, China,
and the Tibetan Plateau.
Mike is an adjunct faculty member at Northern
Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he teaches traditional uses of native
plants and wilderness survival skills. He has also taught
programs through Coconino Community College, Yavapai Community
College, Grand Circle Field Institute, and the National Park
Service. For more information about herbal and botanical courses
with Mike Masek,
click
here. |
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Mike
Masek demonstrating shelter building techniques
as part of a Survival and Wilderness Course. |
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 Bill
Downey
His classroom may be on a university campus, in an alcove in
the desert southwest, an historic bungalow in rural India, or
along a river bank. Wherever his opportunities take him, Downey
strives to blend his passion for teaching, for being in wild
places, and for remote medicine & survival skills.
A native of Chicago, he's made his home in a remote Utah
desert town for the past 10+ years where he is a
firefighter/paramedic. Experience in cultural resource
preservation has given him a unique insight into how bushcraft
is not a novelty for the present, but an integral part of our
humanity and the development of societies. As a whitewater river
guide he has had the opportunity to explore unique and very
remote parts of the western United States, and facing challenges
in providing patient care & rescue in remote locations where
calling for help is not an option. In recent years he's spent
much of his time looking at the ground in minute detail as he
sharpens his skills in tracking. A professional educator
specializing in wilderness medicine, Downey is proud to bring
his expertise to Ancient Pathways. |
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