AGENDA FOR SURVIVAL 1.
 WHAT
WE WILL COVERED
Fire - 1-match fires, Fire
Lays, Flint and Steel, Bow Drill
Water - How to obtain water where
it appears none is readily available,
and how to treat it for safe
consumption, both naturally and with
modern chemicals and equipment.
 Shelter
- Principles of shelter and shelter building,
natural shelters, tarp and poncho
shelters, debris huts.
Traps - Principles of trapping
animals in a survival situation,
including making basic, effective traps and snares such as the
"Figure 4" deadfall and
the spring snare.
Food
- How to prepare, cook, and preserve
food in a survival situation. You
will have the opportunity to learn and
then correctly filet fish (optional).
Plants
- Become comfortable with
using popular plant identification
books. Then we will identify both
edible and medicinal plants found in
the area. We will then cover how to
use and prepare the plants back at
camp.
Navigation
- Learn the secrets of
Natural Navigation as well as the
basics of modern navigation.
Discover how to
REALLY use a compass, understand
topographic maps, take bearings both
from maps and in the woods, and
accurately measure distance without
tape measures or other equipment.
Simulated Survival Situation - At
week's end, you will have the chance to
put what you learned into action with
a supervised "survival situation." Our
staff will be monitoring your progress
as you put together a complete base
camp as if you were suddenly thrust
into an emergency survival situation.
This
has been consistently the part of the
class that past students have had the most
fun with and which gave students the most
personal satisfaction.
Our
goals as instructors are:
- Have
you learn the skills you want well
enough that you can demonstrate and teach them to your friends
when you get home.
- Insure you have
fun during the week like
vacationing while learning new
and useful skills.
- Make
you begin to think as a "survival
person" ...assessing a situation,
determining what resources you have on
and around you, deciding on a plan
of action, improvising, and carrying that plan to successful completion.
Again,
this class is not PHYSICALLY
challenging but it definitely will
open your awareness to what's available to you
in the woods and how you can take
advantage of every resource so you CAN survive.
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