Wilderness Survival Summer Field Session

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The Wilderness Survival Summer Field Session takes you beyond the classroom giving you the chance to practice summer survival skills in the boreal forest. This course has a relaxed hands-on learning atmosphere, giving you a chance to develop the modern wilderness survival skills discussed in Wilderness Survival Core Seminar. Numerous skills will be taught during the weekend, with plenty of time allotted to practice your new skills.

Wilderness Survival Summer Field Session will give you an excellent look at boreal forest survival in summer. Emphasis will be on useful boreal forest plants, fire lighting and knifecraft. Firecraft practice will be extensive and emphasize will be on lighting fire with natural tinders and a flint (zirconium) striker. Participants will live in a group shelter on the first night and in their individual survival shelter on the second night. Each participant will have the opportunity to build a summer survival shelter, a 15 minute Survival Saw, a sharpening board, and a staff. The next step is to join us on the 5-day Wilderness Survival Summer Field Trek.

• Selecting a Survival Knife
• Basic Knife Handling
• Construct a Sharpening Board
• Knife Sharpening

• Build a Baton
• Build a "15 Minute Saw"
• Basic Notches
• Natural Cordage
• Useful Knots

• Artificial and Natural Tinders
• Firelighting Aids
• Lighting a Fire with a Zirconium Striker
• Twig Bundles
• Survival Twig Bundles
• Building a Survival Fire
• Getting a Fire started
• Keeping a Fire burning
• Selection of Proper Wood
• Cooking Cranes
• Cooking with a Survival fire

• Trees of the Boreal Forest
• Useful plants of the Summer Forest
• Identification of Aspect / Slope
• Best Survival Camp Locations

• Selection of Summer Survival Shelters
• Improvised Shelters
• Supershelter
• Survival Lean-to
• Build a Bough Bed
• Build a Solo or 2 Person Survival Shelter
• Summer Camping Techniques

• Signal Fire Twig Bundle
• Build a Signal Fire
• Lighting a Signal Fire