5-Day Wilderness Survival Training in Colorado

Five days of field training in fire, shelter, water, navigation, and wilderness living. $595 per person. No experience needed.

Upcoming 5-Day Survival Training Dates

May 28–Jun 1
2027

Cripple Creek, Colorado

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Jun 16–20
2027

Cripple Creek, Colorado

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Aug 13–17
2027

Cripple Creek, Colorado

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What You’ll Learn in Five Days

This is hands-on field training. You will be outside building, working, and applying these skills in real conditions.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Build and maintain fires using modern tools and primitive methods
  • Construct and improve shelters for changing mountain weather
  • Find, collect, filter, and purify water in the field
  • Use a map and compass and recognize terrain features
  • Work safely with knives, axes, saws, and practical survival gear
  • Practice basic food procurement, trapping concepts, and fishing methods
  • Signal for help and communicate in backcountry environments
  • Combine skills in field scenarios that require decisions and teamwork

Five days gives you more time to practice, make adjustments, and apply these skills with instructor guidance. Training includes short demonstrations, repeated drills, and practical challenges.

Class Schedule

Check in at 9:00 AM on the first day. Class starts at 10:00 AM on day one and 9:00 AM on following days. Training ends at 5:00 PM daily. All times are Mountain Time.

Bring your own meals and personal equipment. Enrolled students may stay on the training property during the course with their own shelter and sleeping gear, or arrange lodging nearby. View the full course details and equipment list.

WHO THIS TRAINING IS FOR

What's Your Reason?

Everyone shows up for different reasons.

This training is for you if:

  • You want real, hands-on outdoor skills you can actually use
  • You’ve never taken a course before and want a solid starting point
  • You spend time outdoors and want to be more prepared
  • You want to build confidence and make better decisions under pressure
  • You’re looking for practical skills, not theory or classroom lectures

This is NOT for you if:

  • You’re looking for a relaxed, sit-back-and-watch type of class
  • You don’t want to be outside working, building, and learning by doing
  • You expect everything to be easy or comfortable
  • You’re not willing to be challenged mentally and physically
  • You’re looking for shortcuts instead of learning the skill

For people who want real skills, not just talk about them.

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BUILD CONFIDENCE WHEN THINGS DON’T GO AS PLANNED

HANDS-ON FIELD TRAINING FOCUSED ON AWARENESS, DECISION MAKING, AND SKILLS YOU CAN RELY ON WHEN CONDITIONS ARE UNCERTAIN

Learn Skills You Can Actually Use

From fire and shelter to water and navigation, you’ll build practical skills that apply in the backcountry and in everyday situations. This isn’t theory. You’ll do the work and see how it actually plays out.

Train in Real Conditions

You’ll be outside working with real materials, real terrain, and real variables. This is where you learn what works, what doesn’t, and how to adjust when things don’t go as planned.

Develop Awareness and Judgment

We focus on helping you read your environment, stay aware of what’s happening around you, and make better decisions before small problems become bigger ones.

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BUILT FROM REAL EXPERIENCE, NOT THEORY

You’re not learning from slides or lectures. Everything in this course comes from time spent in the field, where decisions matter and mistakes have consequences. That experience shapes how we teach and what we focus on.

We don’t just show you what to do. We put you in situations where you have to think, adapt, and figure things out with guidance along the way. That’s how skills actually stick.

You’ll leave with more than information. You’ll leave with experience, confidence, and a clear understanding of how to handle yourself when things don’t go as planned.

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WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH

Real Confidence in the Field

You won’t just understand the concepts. You’ll have done the work, made decisions, and seen what actually works when conditions aren’t ideal.

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Skills You Can Rely On

You’ll leave with practical skills you can use immediately, whether you’re in the backcountry or dealing with unexpected situations closer to home.

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Better Judgment Under Pressure

You’ll learn how to slow things down, stay aware, and make better decisions before small problems become bigger ones.

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Over the years, the work of The Survival University has resulted in a long list of students becoming confident adventurers through hundreds of courses led by expert instructors.

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