"Tracking took my perception of bushcraft skills to a new level because it forced me to look at my surroundings and environment in a different way. At the start of the course, it feels like incredibly hard work trying to see the dozens of clues that help you build a picture, but it gradually becomes easier and more subconscious until you can't help yourself looking for clues. That's when it becomes addictive! You see your surroundings through new eyes, and realise that a patch of apparently empty woodland has enough clues to keep you busy for hours retracing the steps of badgers and other animals that were foraging in leaf litter the previous night. As you follow their trails you gain a much better appreciation of how they behave, and where they go, and this in turn helps you find and observe live animals. The skills that we learnt in observation, camouflage, and stalking were essential for this, and allowed me to get much closer to animals in their natural habitat than I had thought possible. Man tracking added another dimension to the skills we acquired, as we learnt about working in tracker teams, and human behaviour under various conditions and how to anticipate it. I notice much more now, when I am out walking at home or on holiday in a different country. I cannot recommend this course highly enough."