At EarthSkills school: Small classes allow students much one-on-one time. Peter's instruction style is patient and meticulous. ​​
The Boreal forest: below 0 degrees. Peter returning from a backcountry hike using his self-made snow shoes. ​
The north Maine woods: Smoking meat on a primitive rack to cure it for a week-long, unsupported canoe trip into the backcountry. ​

Biographical Summary:
Peter Magnin, EarthSkills Instructor.

EarthSkill’s new intructor, Peter Magnin, brings his experience and formidable bushcraft education in the primitive arts as a force-multiplier to the school’s curriculum.

While serving in the United States Air Force, Peter trained with the Air Force’s Survival, Escape, Resistance and Evasion (SERE) elite special operations command on multiple volunteer tours oversees. After the military, he continued his bushcraft training with noteable primitive skills professionals Terry Barney, Paul Kirtley and the world-renowned Mors Kochansky of Karamat Wilderness Ways. After earning his Wilderness EMT certification he attended the Jack Mountain Bushcraft School and graduated its Bushcraft Guide Certification Program, a grueling 9-week immersion into learning to live in harmony with nature.

More than highly skilled in survival and primitive wilderness skills, Peter enjoys a genuine love for the natural world. He is as much at home on his hands and knees studying animal tracks as he is scaling a mountain or rappelling from the end of a rope.



​Military Training & Experience Relevant to Teaching Wilderness Skills

​• United States Air Force: August 2012 – June 2016
• Responsible for training of personnel. Organized and supervised jobs for mechanics team to achieve goals.
• Trained with Survival, Escape, Resistance & Evasion (SERE) Specialists during volunteer opportunities multiple times while part of the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) overseas.


Civilian Training & Experience

• Completed the Jack Mountain Bushcraft Wilderness Semester; 9 weeks of living in the wilderness while studying and practicing primitive and traditional crafts. 
• Nationally Registered Wilderness EMT.
• Completed 88 Tactical Basic – Advanced Survival Courses
• Completed Basic and Intermediate Bushclass online bushcraft program.
• Attended Karamat Wilderness Ways “Extended Winter Wilderness Living Skills/ Survival Course” with lead instructor Mors Kochanski.
• Completed Frontier Bushcraft, Elementary Bushcraft Course. 
• Received training with Sam Larson from History Channel's Alone, on animal tracking and signs.
• Personally tested skills by surviving multiple nights using primitive skills and minimal gear.
• Trained and experienced in rapelling and ropes rescue.
​• Trained and experienced rock climber.


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