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Tamsyn +27 72 379 5854 or admin@lowveldtrails.co.za

The following persons may not reply immediately, as they spend extended periods in the field:

Brenden +27 72 432 6263 or brenden@lowveldtrails.co.za
Wayne +27 84 360 8772 or wayne@lowveldtrails.co.za

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Tracking is the ability and awareness to recognise

Tracking is the ability and awareness to recognise signs and deduce something from them that will aid in the pursuit of a particular goal. Our most primal goal being to stay alive. If you could not track, you would not be where you are today.
#Humans are #natural born trackers. It's part of our biological 'software'. To read this, you track the letters into words, track words into sentences, track sentences in paragraphs and then deduce the message or concept that the text is conveying. We call it literacy. The same example can be made of numbers. We call that numeracy. #Doctors look to recognise signs and deduce the progress of a patient. There would be no forensic pathology without tracking. Similarly, we keep track of time, we keep track of the kids, we keep track of the news, we keep track of the route to meetings (often using roadside signs). The ability and #awareness to recognise signs in the natural environment is also referred to as an 'ecological literacy'. Unfortunately the average human's ecological literacy has faded. In other words, humans have become ecologically Illiterate.

Our #environmentally destructive behaviour is a direct result of being ecological illiterate. If you are still able to read the signs in the sand (or at a trophic level), then you have a great responsibility to rewild the human imagination.

The nucleus of #TrailsGuiding, as with most applie

The nucleus of #TrailsGuiding, as with most applied sciences, is experience. Merely knowing when to avoid an animal encounter is valuable beyond recognition. Nonetheless, occupational Trails #Guides will encounter threatening situations due to the combination of an extraordinary amount of time spent in the field and the infinite possibilities of circumstance (weather, structure, #animals in motion and animals at rest etc.). Fortunately, and perhaps contrary to popular belief, a Trails Guide's work environment is very forgiving and unconfrontational as they manage to negotiate more than ninety-nine point nine percent of animal encounters without converting them to lifeless matter. On extremely #rare occasions there may be an event that is out of everyone's control and for which the Trails Guide can take no blame. The notion that an occupational Trails Guide can be guaranteed of going his/her entire career without having to shoot an animal in defence, as long as they conduct themselves according to the textbook, speaks for a lack of experience. For this exact reason, we wholeheartedly disagree with the notion of conducting Trails without a rifle or taking a predetermined decision to never shoot an animal on Trail, especially when participants' lives are at risk. The notion is the equivalent of arguing that a driver by profession is exempt from a vehicle accident, as long as s/he obeys the road rules religiously. What then about the oncoming variable that jumps a stop street, red traffic light or falls asleep behind the steering wheel? The law-abiding driver has no influence on this eventuality, and considering the amount of time s/he spends on the #road, is clearly not exempt from falling victim to an accident. The driver in him/herself is not a detached traffic component, just like the Trails Guide is not isolated from a natural environment and it’s infinite possibilities of circumstance.

Wayne busy explaining one of the six Advanced Rifl

Wayne busy explaining one of the six Advanced Rifle Handling (ARH) exercises during one of our monthly practice days. @lowveld_trails_co offer montly scheduled ARH practice and assessments. Each candidate will be required to have a Field Guide qualification (FGASA) in place, and will have to attain the required Unit Standards through the Professional Firearm Trainers Council (PFTC) before an ARH assessment may take place. Candidate will additionally have to be a paid-up member of FGASA, and have a valid First Aid Certificate in order to secure an assessment date.

Here's a @lowveld_trails_co. Pro Tip for the Field

Here's a @lowveld_trails_co. Pro Tip for the Field Guides Association of Southern Africa (FGASA) Advanced Rifle Handling (ARH) assessment; Speed is good, but accuracy is final.

The experienced #team at Lowveld Trails Co. are ac

The experienced #team at Lowveld Trails Co. are accredited Field Guides Association of Southern Africa (FGASA) assessors and conduct Advanced Rifle Handling (ARH) assessments. As per FGASA, all Trails Guides are required to successfully complete an ARH assessment, and remain current, before they can be declared competent to conduct guided #walks in a dangerous game #environment.
Find our scheduled ARH practice and assessment dates on our website. #linkinbio

Hello, my name is Brenden and I'm a 'Trail Junkie'

Hello, my name is Brenden and I'm a 'Trail Junkie'. Admitting my helplessness over this compulsive behavior is the first step to recovery. You see, these completely immersive experiences through Africa’s wild spaces have dominated my life for the past 16 years. Primitive Trails push me beyond my comfort zone, yet they get me so ‘high’. Although I’m devoted to treating the symptoms, I need to understand the cause. Why do Primitive Trails make me feel so good?
Follow the story and find the answer @lowveld_trails_co.

Are you ecologically literate? Can you read what's

Are you ecologically literate? Can you read what's written in the sand here? Feel free to leave your comments below.
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#trackandsign #tracker #cybertracker #trackeracademy #lowveldtrails #WeAreTrails #lowveldtrailsco

We're all still wild, it's just that civilization

We're all still wild, it's just that civilization is getting in the way of our human being. As individuals, we are defined by our relationships, both human-to-human and human-to-nature. Once we isolate ourselves from that which defines us, we begin to experience a disconnect or sense of loneliness. Should it be surprising that we are the loneliest society in human history? 🤔

Primitive Trails have the ability to rewild the human Imagination.
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#relationshipgoals #relationship #humaininnature #lowveldtrails #WeAreTrails #lowveldtrailsco

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