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Left, Ian Siems, 9, tries to catch a fish with his bare hands during mountain man rendezvous day at Holbrook Elementary in Bountiful Thursday. Grant Davis, below, a member of the American Longrifle Association, teaches children at the school how to start a fire with flint and steel, a common method of making fire in early days. The fourth-graders, who are studying the mountain man era, panned for gold and watched a black-powder demonstration.

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