Boreal Wilderness Institute
Modern Wilderness Survival
& GPS Integrated Wilderness Navigation

GPS & Wilderness Navigation Training

• The Boreal Wilderness Institute provides expert instruction in GPS Integrated Wilderness Navigation
• Our Wilderness Navigation Courses integrate the use of GPS receivers with topographical maps, compass, and air photos.
• The Wilderness Navigation Core Seminar fully integrates Map Reading and basic Compass skills with the use of a GPS Receiver.
• BWI’s Wilderness Navigation Core Seminar provides the best GPS Receiver training available.

Modern Wilderness Survival Training

• The Boreal Wilderness Institute provides expert instruction in Modern Wilderness Survival
• BWI teaches both Winter Survival Courses and Summer Survival Courses.
• The Wilderness Survival Core Seminar is an innovative one day wilderness survival seminar.
• Is is designed for anyone who travels either for professional or recreational reasons into or over the Canadian Wilderness.
• Our Wilderness Survival Core Seminar provides skills for year round safe wilderness travel.

The Best in Wilderness Courses and Instruction

• BWI teaches individuals, field workers, educators, corporations, groups, and government agencies.
• Looking for Certification in Wilderness Survival or Wilderness Navigation: look no further than the Boreal Wilderness Institute. We offers an excellent Wilderness Certificate Programme.

Join us for a Real Outdoor Education

• The Boreal Wilderness Institute has been offering quality outdoor education courses and wilderness instruction since 1994.
• BWI’s courses are practical, taught in a relaxed atmosphere, and scientifically based.
• We teach wilderness courses and conducts training seminars throughout Western and Northern Canada.
• We run scheduled and custom wilderness training courses and seminars year round.

What our Participants have said about us...

"Informative and fast. Packed with Info."
— Wilderness Survival Core Seminar Participant

"The whole approach to backcountry navigation was excellent — very much oriented to the practical."
— Wilderness Navigation Core Seminar Participant

"Practical, effective, hands-on learning. Likely the best Outdoor related purchase I've ever made."
— Wilderness Survival Winter Field Trek Graduate

"I enjoyed all of the outdoor activities. Especially the day at the Blackfoot."
— Wilderness Navigation Field Session Participant

"Practical Solutions to real problems that occur in cold/wet weather camping."
— Wilderness Survival Core Seminar Participant

"Practical everyday suggestions made by the instructor based on a wide range of experience."
— Wilderness Navigation Core Seminar Participant

"...the course was excellent and the instructor very knowledgeable."
— Wilderness Survival Core Seminar Participant