Taproom Talks: The Art & Science of Tracking

When you pause to consider that nothing in nature can move without disrupting something else, you realize that there is a deep cavern of knowledge to gain from studying tracking. Tracking is beyond just a footprint on the earth. Even the forest growth is tracking how the sun moves in the sky, and will give you the cardinal directions. In this fascinating and absorbing talk, you’ll begin to learn animal vs. human tracking, signs vs. the track and why it’s so important to find both, and how different organizations (like Search and Rescue, police, and military, vs a track) use these skills to achieve their purposes.

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Join Shane Hobel, the founder of Mountain Scout Survival School and resident of Beacon, NY, for this interactive lecture. Shane is amongst a class of the highest trained tracking individuals in the United States, and he continues his study of the ancient ways at the world famous Tracker School in the Pine Barrens of NJ. Shane applies his years of training, knowledge and experience to teaching at Mountain Scout Survival School as well as training members of law enforcement and military in tracking.

In 2009 Shane was invited to be one of five members of Tom Brown Jr’s elite Tracker Search and Forensic Investigation Team Tracker Search & Forensic Investigation Team. This team is dispatched whenever called upon to track and find lost children, hunters who became disoriented in the woods or fugitives escaping the law. Shane has personally participated in several cases, including a case featured in New Yorker magazine and History Channel’s Monster Quest involving two panthers that were loose in Rockland County. Shane was the head tracker in this case and successfully tracked the panthers and provided authorities with their location.

Learn more about Shane Hobel and Mountain Scout Survival School here.