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SURVIVAL:

Classroom:  The first two days of the course will be held in a classroom setting to instruct and familiarize the student with all the skills necessary for a wilderness survival experience. Some skills taught in the classroom are:

- Positive mental attitudes

- Skills needed to work as a group

- Construction of primitive shelters

- Several methods of making fire

- How to find and purify water

- Tools and their safe handling

1. -Navigation
   

2. -Etc...
   

After an in-class lecture, further instructions will take place outdoors where skills taught will range from:

- Bow-drill fire starting

- Trap construction and their placement

- Useful Tree and Plant identification

- Container and Basket Construction

- Etc..

Any useful items made during the first two days of the course will be allowed to be brought into the field.

Most skills taught have very little dependence on modern equipment as it can often be unavailable in a survival situation. The student will learn to use natural materials found in the wilderness. Learning such skills can give extra confidence, and any modern equipment available will be an additional benefit to the survivor.

Field: The second part of the course will be 24 hours spent in the woods learning valuable skills and putting those learned from the previous days classes into use. While we walk to the site we will use our Navigational skills to learn and gather useful trees and plants along the way. Once at the site we will establish camp using only the natural materials on hand to make fire, gather and purify water, set up signaling devices for search and rescue and prepare for the night. Learning and putting into use these valuable skills in a controlled survival situation is vital experience, something everyone should not be without.

Seasonal Courses:  Courses for the Fall, Winter and Spring will be held, as these seasons all have their own challenges and difficulties to contend with.