Safety & Survival Courses

Wilderness Survival Training 1

Cost: $50

Duration: 2 Days, including Overnight             Hours: 24 (0900 day 1 – 0900 day 2)

This course is set to run for 24 hours starting at 0900 on day 1 and ending at 0900 on day 2. The participant is signing up to remain in a wilderness environment. Regardless of weather, the course will run through.

We will divide the participants into even teams. Each team will work together and compete for survival prizes awarded at each of the challenge stations. The course begins at 0900-1200 with a series of lectures that will include tips for not getting lost, survival packs, if you do become lost – what you can do to assist being found, building fires based on need – including the Dakota Fire Pit & drying pits, basic first aid concepts, and introduction to compass and map reading.

From 1200-1230 the lectures will continue and you are allowed to eat your last meal during this 30 minute time till 0900 the next day. Each person is allowed to bring one (1) 24 oz plastic bottle of water with them for the full 24 hours. Extra water is made available if your team completes certain goals that will be explained. During the afternoon of Day 1 to one (1) hour before dark, your team will be required to navigate using compass and map. At each waypoint, the team that arrives first will be given the opportunity to pick from survival prizes that may assist them in completing the course in more comfort or ease. Also at each waypoint, teaching points will be covered including shelter building, water gathering, water purification, dead reckoning, basic search skills, litter building and more.

All teams will arrive at a shelter area and teams will get to choose which area they want to build their shelter based on points earned during the day. We will start exactly one hour before dark for all teams. Shelters will be built using only available materials from the land and what the team can gather before dark. Fires (depending on burn bans) will be required to burn through the night and be extinguished the next morning.

As well during the night, a number of task will be given that must be completed by dawn and others by 0900 at the end of class.

At dawn on day 2 the team will be required to use some of the task completed overnight to continue to the extraction point by 0900. There will be increased level of difficulty challenges through the morning. There will be medical challenges, navigation without compass and map, obstacle course, and the dash to the finish line.

This is a team course with a minimal of two persons per team and a maximum of 5 per team. Teams will be even as much as possible. Each person is allowed to bring only a 24 oz plastic water bottle, the clothing that they actually wear for the morning of day 1 and must carry out at end of course and the sack lunch/MRE or the like meal for day 1.

Any violation of rules or cheating forfeits your entire team.

** If any participant has a medical issue or requires medication during the course, the facilitators will carry the meds and be made aware of medical issues.

Cost: $100

Duration: 2 Days & 2 night             Hours: 39 (1800 day 1, 24 on day 2 & day 3 to 0900

Prerequisite: Must have successfully completed the Wilderness Survival 1 within the past 2 years

The person signing up for the WS2 course will be dropped off at a designated starting point. Given a specific amount of time to reach waypoint 1 and build a shelter for the night. Day 2 will be spent navigating to various locations and completing tasks given. Evening number 2 will require a second shelter and overnight task to be completed. On day 3 at daybreak, the participant will be required to use dead reckoning and pace count to find a series of obstacles to complete and make the extraction point on time at exactly 0900.

This course is run individually or in pairs.