COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
INTERMEDIATE COURSE
The INTERMEDIATE COURSE is a two day course, during this time you will be given some options. Each student in attendance will be offered the same options. For the BASIC 1 & 2 course all students are required to come prepared as they would be for a day hike, this included their own lunch, snack and drinks, ( NO ALCOHOL ALLOWED). This also applies for this course and series of classes. Students will be cooking two of their own meals over a community fire, they will also sleep in their own shelter, which they will build. Each student will be required to bring his or her own food, drinks, cooking gear, (NO STOVES), and any other equipment, you must bring a compass. If you do not think that you could spend a night in a shelter that you build under the instructor’s direction, you may bring a small tent; it is suggested that you have a sleeping bag in your vehicle in case you decide that you need it. Our goal is to teach you, not to make you suffer. Other options will be outlined the first morning of the course. We want each of you to come prepared. We want each student to gain in knowledge and skills and have some fun along the way. But don’t be mistaken, there will be some rules. The two meals that you will be cooking for yourself will be dinner the first evening and breakfast the following morning. You must provide your lunches, snacks, and drinks for both days. There will be drinking water available at the class location. Restroom facilities will be a pit toilet. COME PREPARED , there are no dangerous animals on the property, but there are coyotes, raccoon, bats and snakes. There are no bears, cougars, or venomous snakes.
INTERMEDIATE COURSE CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
- Trip planning- a quick review
- Survival kits- a quick review
- First Aid kits- a quick review
- Wilderness First Aid Kit
- Don’t leave home without it
- Wilderness navigation, map and compass
- Navigation without a map or compass
- Situational awareness
- Shelters- finding or building
- Finding and purifying water
- Fire building safety and usage
- Foraging
- Edible plants
- Poisonous plants
- Obtaining other food
- Snares, deadfalls, traps
- Wilderness dangers
- Dangerous wildlife
- Children in the wilderness (optional)
- Shoreline survival
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