Basic Wilder­ness Camp­ing Adven­ture Skills

This course is designed for begin­ners or those who have never camped in a wilder­ness environment.

The course deals with the fun­da­men­tals of proper camp­ing tech­niques, health and hygiene, and under­stand­ing loca­tion and nat­ural resources. The class is an 8 hour ses­sion located in a rural wood­land environment.

Price: $75.00 Adults / $45.00 per child (no children under 7)

The skills we will pro­vide you

Land Nav­i­ga­tion - The basics of how to use a compass, how to read and orientate a map

Basic Camp­ing Tech­niques — How to set up a camp, how to cre­ate a safety zone, do’s and don’ts of rural camping.

Pro­tec­tion - Fun­da­men­tals of fire build­ing. Proper use of man-made shel­ters and use of nat­ural resources as shel­ters. Defense from the ele­ments and wildlife.

Water - How to locate water. How to purify the water for drinking.

Field Hygene — Tooth, foot and body care. How to inspect and keep track of poten­tial problems.

The Fundamentals of Wilder­ness Sur­vival Train­ing course is the basic survival course offered by Critical Survival.  The course has been designed to teach the average person skills in Wilderness Survival and Self Reliance.  The class is a 3 night 2 day class located in a rural woodland environment.

Price: $300.00 per Adult / $150.00 for children under age of 18 and above 14

The skills we will pro­vide you are:

Land Nav­i­ga­tion - Proper use of a com­pass and map. Posi­tion loca­tion. Uti­liza­tion of other tech­niques, other than com­pass and map, by which to nav­i­gate. Uder­stand­ing trails and land for­ma­tions. Trail blazing.

Nat­ural Resources - Edi­ble foods, plants, and the dan­gers. Sim­ple tools and how to make them. Loca­tion of water other than streams and rivers. Alter­na­tive means of fire building.

Shel­ter - Use of nat­ural resources. Use of man-made equip­ment in unusual ways. Using the land­scape to your advantage.

Tools - Basic uses of rope and 550 cord. Fire start­ing flints, knives and pon­chos. Tooth, foot and body care. How to inspect and keep track of poten­tial problems.

Wild Game - Track­ing, ani­mal behav­ior, snar­ing and fish­ing. Pro­tec­tion — Wildlife and the elements.

The Advanced Wilder­ness Sur­vival Pre­pared­ness class is based on the worst pos­si­ble sit­u­a­tion that any one per­son could find them­selves in.  We pre­pare our stu­dents to sur­vive and thrive in any envi­ron­ment with lim­ited equip­ment and no mod­ern con­ve­niences.  This class is a three day four night class con­cen­trat­ing on devel­op­men­tal skills, phys­i­o­log­i­cal, and psy­cho­log­i­cal effects of sur­vival in the wilder­ness with­out the com­forts of mod­ern camp­ing equipment.

Price: $500.00 per  adult No children allowed

The skills we will pro­vide you

Psy­cho­log­i­cal Sur­vival: What are the effects of sur­vival alone and how to over­come them

Phys­i­o­log­i­cal Sur­vival: How to over­come the effects of cold, heat, and exhaus­tion while in a sur­vival situation

Shel­ter: The use of nat­ural resources and refuse that is found in almost any environment

Tools: Con­struct­ing basic tools from nat­ural resources

Wild Ani­mals: Track­ing, hunt­ing, snar­ing, trap­ping.  (Please see addi­tional infor­ma­tion about Wild Animals)

Escape / Res­cue: How to increase your chances of res­cue or escape, ways of sig­nal and secure

Dis­claimer:

Wild Ani­mals: Dur­ing this part of the course the stu­dents will be taught how to cap­ture and dis­patch a ani­mal humanly and quickly for the pur­pose of food, cloth­ing, shel­ter, and other resources.  The ani­mal is never wasted; stu­dents are taught how every sin­gle part of the ani­mal is used in dif­fer­ent ways.  (No ani­mal is taken out of sea­son such as deer, etc)  Every stu­dent will be asked to par­tic­i­pate dur­ing this event, we under­stand that peo­ple can be squea­mish or might have some reser­va­tions about this part of the course, but in order to receive a cer­tifi­cate of com­ple­tion this part of the course must be completed.

The Survival Expert Course is a seven day course that WILL test you to your limits!  Please contact us for more information on this course.  Unless you are ready for an extreme survival experience do not sign up for this course. (A physicians release is required to take this course)

Price: $5000.00 per person No person under the age of 21