Survival Skills Overnight

Organizer : Wilderness Awareness School

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About this Course

For Everybody

Join us for an engaging overnight experience at Survival Skills Overnight! This program will cover much of what is taught in our Wilderness Survival Basics program but will allow students to go deeper into these skills, putting them into practice. This program will cover the skills and knowledge necessary to live through a short-term wilderness survival situation.

Contents

Topics will include essential survival gear, survival priorities, and maintaining an upright mind.

You will learn these crucial survival skills:

  • Firemaking using modern methods, as well as gaining an introduction to friction fire
  • Water purification – both with modern gear as well as boiling methods
  • Wild food gathering and camp cooking
  • Shelter-making using both a tarp as well as natural shelters
  • Outdoor sleeping
  • Animal traps
  • Knife use and safety
  • Bushcraft – cordage, spoon making, baskets, etc.

Anyone who enters the wilderness will benefit from having these essential survival skills.

Structure

Hands-on overnight weekend sleeping in the woods. 

Prerequisites

Recommended participation in our Wilderness Survival Basics weekend or equivalent class. 

Packing List

Packing List is on our web page. 

Board & Overnight

Sleeping out overnight in shelters. 

Teachers

Survival Skills Overnight

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