Surviving
Survival skills allow you to take care of yourself in the wilderness and with enough skill it is possible to live off the land for long periods.
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Firemaking
Wood drill firemaking
Waterfinding
Finding water is essential as dehydration will kill you faster than starvation.
- Dig and procure water from a shallow well
- Demonstrate evasion method of water procurement
- Demonstrate the conversion of mud into drinking water
- Construct a solar still
- Purify water with water purification tablets
- Install a tree tap to secure sap from a tree
- Set up a rain water collector
- Demonstrate snow generator water procurement method
- Set up a vegetation still
Hunting
Tanning hides
Trapping
Setting snares to catch food
Tracking
Tracking animals, finding lost friendlies, tracking hostiles
Counter-tracking
Evading tracking hostiles is a skill one hopes never to need.
Sheltering
Exposure to wet and cold or sun can often kill you with hypothermia or heat stroke faster than dehydration or starvation.
Making primitive shelters
Finding natural shelter
Setting up shelter gear like tarps, tents and bivies.
Primitive Toolmaking
Making rope
Making rafts
Knife Sharpening
Wilderness Navigation
Navigate a pre-determined course after dark
Establish your location when lost with GPS and navigate back to base camp - we'll make sure your lost
Track inbound on a flare signal after dark
Demonstrate safest, quickest, easiest routes to a designated location
Demonstrate navigational techniques with zero landmark availability
Demonstrate proper triangulation procedures
Navigate multi leg course with map and compass
Navigate after dark using celestial landmarks
Set up a sun dial and clock
Weather Prediction
Walking
“Walking magazine! Look Dan, the new ‘walking’ is out. here’s a good article: putting one foot in front of the other.”
—George Carlin
Walking may not seem like a skill, but when you travel long distances it becomes important to know how to travel.