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Recommended Gear List For Courses

Recommended Gear List For Courses

Colorado is a cold weather climate most of the year and with our survival school at 9400 feet, it can get frigid at night, even during the summer. Dress accordingly! Also, the sun at our elevation is intense making it easy to get sunburned. Bring sunscreen and UV protective sun glasses.

We believe in a philosophy of get the survival  training before you get the survival gear. Because we know from experience that once you get some training, you will probably change your mind about what survival gear you need. For this reason we require very little survival equipment to attend our courses. But you definitely will need some basic items to attend our courses. This page is to list recommended items you might want for our wilderness survival courses. Each course has different requirements but this list will give you the most common items you should bring to our wilderness survival courses. Almost none of the items are absolutely necessary if you don’t have them and we want to make sure you can attend whether you only have a few items or you could outfit an expedition! So check out our recommended survival gear list and email us if you have any questions on survival gear!

Survival Gear List

 

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STANDARD GEAR OUTDOOR CLOTHING

 Folding Handsaw - (Silky f180, Silky Pocket Boy, Silky Gomboy, Silky Ultra Accel, Bahco Laplander, Corona Saw)
• Knife - preferably bushcraft style. Full tang. No doubled edged or serrated edged blades (ie. Mora Garberg, Benchmade Bushcrafter, Condor Puukko etc…)
• Paracord - 200 feet
• Food – Mountain House freeze dried meals or similar
• Work Gloves
• Fire Starting Kit - (6” long x ½” diameter or longer Ferro rod)
• Water Filter - (Sawyer mini, Grayl Geopress, Hiker Katadyn)
• Metal Water Bottle - Single Walled (40 oz Klean Kanteen or similar)
• Hydration Bladder - Camel Pack
• Sleeping Bag - (0 degree bag recommended)
• Ground Sleeping Pad
• Tent/Camping Hammock/Rain fly/Preferred sleep system

(wool or synthetic materials. No cotton! We recommend these clothing selections even during the summer.)
• Long underwear tops and bottoms
• Wool socks
• Synthetic shirt (no cotton)
• Quick drying outdoor pants (no cotton, no jeans)
• Hiking boots (waterproof in winter, breathable in summer)
• Boot gators (for your lower leg, not your neck)
• Fleece or wool pullover shirt
• Warm Jacket
• Rain Jacket or poncho
• Cold weather hat (fleece or wool)
• Ball cap or other sunshade hat
• Shemagh or large cotton scarf (this should be your only cotton it)

 

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