Wilderness Survival and Awareness
Learn essential survival skills: from fire building and shelters, to trapping/fishing and surviving an animal attack
Description
Welcome! This course teaches essential survival skills, what you need to know to make it out alive in a survival scenario. If you're new to wilderness survival, this is the course for you. Emergency situations happen all the time and this course will teach you ways to handle them, such as securing drinking water or treating injuries.
This course will prepare you for a variety of survival situations and give you the know-how on what to do. You will learn: how to build a fire (and use as a signal fire), finding and purifying water, how to properly dress to stay warm in cold environments, making shelter, surviving animal attacks, how to trap and fish for food and even how to survive a natural disaster.
Lectures are a variety of slides, pictures, and video demonstrations. Also this course will be updated periodically with new material for all students.
You will learn what to do in the event you are stuck in a emergency situation. These skills can also be applied to many areas of life such as on your next family camping trip. This course will prepare you for the unknown and surviving through it!
Happy trails!
LAST UPDATED: April 2017
What You Will Learn!
- Learn the essential survival items to always carry with you
- How to purify water and find food (edibles and trap animals)
- How to make a survival shelter
- The best way to build a fire
- Basic First Aid skills
- Navigate with a map/compass and sun/moon/etc.
- Proper clothing to wear
- Key survival knots to know
- How to survive an animal attack
- Learn the basics of wilderness survival
Who Should Attend!
- All ages. Those who realize they need to be ready to survive
- This is a beginner course for those who are new to wilderness survival