COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Enroll in the ultimate summer outdoor wilderness immersion and become confident as an advanced outdoorsman/outdoorswoman. There is no prerequisite to attend other than an innate passion to learn and an internal drive to take on this life changing challenge. Participants will live in a primitive shelter that they will build and attend our full summer program of courses. Increase mental strength and fortitude while developing resiliency. Whether you are currently an outdoor professional wanting to increase your skill set or a novice who wants an immersion program to fast track their competency, the 50-Day Wilderness Immersion has been created for the diversity of our students and their unique goals. The program will include a solo experience that will allow each student the opportunity to apply the skills they have learned to safely and confidently navigate the basics of wilderness survival to complete their learning journey.

OBJECTIVES:

• Psychology of Survival
• The Priorities of Survival
• Survival Kit Preparation
• Primitive Hygiene/Sanitation
• Enhance creativity and critical thinking skills
• Choosing and using tools for Survival (both primitive and modern)
• Fire Craft (both primitive and modern)
• Survival Shelters (both primitive and modern)
• Finding, Filtering, and Purifying Water
• Passive techniques for Food (Land and Water Based)
• Edible, Useful, and Medicinal Plants (seasonal)
• Knot Tying
• Primitive Navigation Methods
• Primitive Tool Making
• Wild Edible and Medicinal Plant Uses (seasonal)
• Camp Craft & Bushcraft Cooking
• Making rawhide from the hide and processing it into useful cordage.
• Primitive container making with natural materials
• How to build an entire bush kitchen from nothing.
• Primitive Hand drill and Totally Primitive Bow Drill; Bark cordage
• Survival Trapping.
• Basket Fish Traps & other useful survival fishing tactics
• Wilderness Medicine

ENHANCING VALUES THAT ARE DIRECTLY RELATED TO:

• Mental StrengthSituational Awareness
• Physical Performance
• Physical Exertion Stress
• Metabolic Recovery
• Adaptability
• Crisis Management
• Emergency Preparedness

COURSE OUTCOMES AND DEMONSTRATED SKILLS:

• Basic plant identification and utilization
• Fire starting techniques and maintaining fires | importance of fire as a tool
• Building expedient and long term survival shelters
• Water procurement
• Food procurement (primitive trapping/primitive fishing/insects as food)
• Water filtration vs purification
• Stone tool creation and utilization
• Plants as tools
• Knife skills
• Crisis action planning
• Signaling

Other than gaining a solid foundation into becoming a survival instructor in an ever growing industry or becoming a proficient outdoorsman, this class will prepare you for other careers in outfitting, guiding, outdoor leadership and many other outdoor professions. You will be able to put 500+ hours of training on your resume, as well as, the receipt of a nationally recognized Wilderness First Responder Certification from Offgrid Medic LLC. A WFR Cert is the gold standard and required for many outdoor industry jobs and no other survival school can offer you that certificate in addition to 500 hours of training on your resume.

You will not be trained by a single instructor, but rather a team of experts in their field to include tracking, counter tracking, modern navigation, camouflage and concealment, wilderness medicine, flint knapping and more. Of course we will teach you all of the necessary core survival skills such as fire making, knot tying, shelter building, water procurement and purification, hunting, trapping and many more skills. We won’t just show them to you once, but these core skills will be revisited, reproduced and driven into your mind until you have them mastered. Every day you will be tasked and tested with the skills until you know them like the back of your own hand.

At the end of this course you will receive a written and physical test. Should you want to become an instructor candidate for TSU you must pass this test. Though we will do everything in our power to help you make this happen, some may not pass, but all will join our brotherhood of Colorado Woodsmen. Either way, you will become part of the TSU family.

UPON COMPLETION OF THIS CLASS YOU WILL GAIN:

• A nationally recognized Wilderness First Responder Certification from Offgrid Medic LLC.
• Skills that will make you more prepared and more valuable than most, in difficult situations.
• Have the confidence and the skills to venture into the backcountry with little gear.

Our teaching style is about quality over quantity. We will start out by teaching you core survival skills to include wilderness medicine and build up to touch on more advanced techniques. Not only will you learn what it takes to get back home but we will also teach you what it takes to stay in the wilderness for as long as you want. We will teach you about fires, shelters, water purification, food procurement, wild edibles, tools, knots, signaling, self-rescue, and real navigation with a map and compass, until it is burned into your head. Later in the course we will move on to advanced training like flint knapping, primitive hunting tools, field butchering, skinning, hide tanning, tracking, and navigation. The final days of the course are scenario based where we will test your skills in a controlled, but difficult environment where you can put most of the learned techniques into play.

You will be training with us in the woods for 50 days straight. We will allow you breaks to rest and resupply, but will encourage you to not enjoy the comforts of modern society while you are with us. By avoiding this temptation, you will challenge yourself in this totally engrossing experience and bring your skills, knowledge and survival psychology to its maximum potential