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2 DAY SURVIVAL FOR BEGINNERS
$275.0
This 2 Day Survival for Beginners class is designed for outdoor enthusiasts, those new to the outdoors, and feel they need to improve their basic knowledge and skills to better prepare for their adventures into the wilderness.
Class Dates
May 18 - 19, 2024
June 8 - 9, 2024
August 10 - 11, 2024
August 17 - 18, 2024
June 8 - 9, 2024
August 10 - 11, 2024
August 17 - 18, 2024
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This 2 Day Survival for Beginners class is designed for outdoor enthusiasts, those new to the outdoors, and feel they need to improve their basic knowledge and skills to better prepare for their adventures into the wilderness. In this course, students can expect to learn the minimum survival skills needed to sustain themselves in the wilderness should they find themselves lost or in a life threatening situation.We take the most important elements of survival and self-reliance and focus on the core survival priorities. Students will be given an overview of the minimum survival gear and hiking gear a person should have on them anytime they venture into the outdoors. They will learn the basic skills to use their gear effectively, should the need arise.
The survival for beginners class will cover the basic aspects of modern techniques including emergency shelters, fire starting techniques, water purification, signaling, situational awareness and self rescue.
Itinerary
Day 1 we will cover survival basics in both a hands on and lecture format. We will teach the Rule of Threes, proper gear selection and use, as well as several fire starting methods. You will learn how to effectively use modern fire making tools, best practices on starting a fire, and more.Day 2 we will take you through the steps of building modern emergency shelters, lost proofing, signaling, water purification, animal encounters and other survival basics that will keep you safe in the backcountry.
COURSE TOPICS
- Psychology of survivalThe priorities of survival
- Animal encounters
- Lost proofing
- Base fire starting techniques
- Emergency survival shelters
- Signaling
- Situational Awareness
- Finding water
- Selecting and using man made water purifiers
- Basic knot tying
- Survival gear preparation
Course Outcomes and Demonstrated Skills
- Basic understanding of the psychology of survival
- Proper trip safety planning and preparation
- Demonstrate basic survival skills and the ability to be more self-reliant
- How to avoid animal encounters and what to do in case of attack
- Tie several basic knots and determine their practical uses
- Identifying the correct survival gear and hiking gear to carry
- Basic fire lays
- Modern fire starting techniques and long term fire maintenance
- Constructing effective emergency shelters
- Learn how to find and purify water
- How to effectively signal for help