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Course Outline
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| Basic Survival - 2 days, 1 night |
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Introduction to Survial
- Preparing Survival Kits and Vehicles
- Vehicle Parts as a Survival Resource
- Survival Priorities and Psychology
- Enemies of Survival and High Risk Factors
- Short term Requirements (72 hours or less).
Fire Building Methods and Materials
- Ignition with Matches, Ferrocerium Rod, and Magnigying Glass, and Tinder Selection for each Method.
- Choice of Fuel Wood for various Applications
- Lighting Fires in high Humidity or Rain
- Cooking Fires
- Tool Use and Maintenance
 
Shelter Building Methods and Materials
- Tarp Super Shelter
- Natural Materials Shelter
- Knots, Lashing, and Natural Cordage Material
- Tool Use, Maintainance, and Safety.
 
Finding Food and Water
- Short Term Water Requirement and Sources
- Filtering, and Purifying Chemically or by Boiling
- Singalling for Help
- Building Signal Fires to Alert Aircraft and Fire Tower Personnel
- Signal Mirror Techniques
- Ground to Air Communication
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Complete Survival - 5 days, 4 nights
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Introduction to Survival
- Preparation of vehicle and Survival kits
- Vehicle Parts as a Survival Resource
- Survival Priorities and Psychology
- Enemies of Survival and High Risk Facors
- Medium to Long Term Nutritional Requirements
Fire Building Methods and Materials
- Techniques with Friction (Bow Drill), Magnesium and Ferro rods, magnifying glass, flint and steel, matches, and suitable man made and natural tinder
- Best Materials to maintain a Fire and Techniques to extent Burn Time
- Lighting Fires in High Humidity or Rain
- Self Feeding and Cooking Fires
- Hot rock bed (conditions permitting)
- Tool Use, Maintainance, and Safety in Building and Maintaining Fires
  
Shelter Building Methods and Materials
- Various types of Tarp Shelters including Tarp Super Shelter.
- Shelter with Natural Materials
- Snow Shelter, conditions permitting
- Knots and Lashing used in Shelter Building
- Natural Cordage Materials
- Joints and Notches without Cordage
- Tool Use in Shelter Building
Finding Food and Water
- Finding water in the abscence of surface water
- Solar still and transpiration bag
- Purifying and Filtering with kit supplies and by Natural Means
- Hunting and Trapping Techniques and Weapons
- Snaring Techniques, Box traps/Deadfalls, Weapons
- Edible Plants
 
Signalling and Finding your Way out
- Building Signal Fires to Signal Aircraft and Fire Tower Personnel
- Signal Mirror Techniques
- Ground to Air Communication
- The Decision to Find Your Way Out
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Wilderness Navigation - 2 days 1 night
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- Classroom Session
- Introduction to Topographic, Forest Inventory, and Municipality Maps and their use with and without a compass.
- Compass Selection and use, and introduction to GPS system
- Field Exercises
- Standardizing your individual pace (measure of its average length over varied terrain)
- Drawing a map from information gathered in the field with compass and pacing.
- Compass Triangulation (Resectioning) in the field to find your position on a map
- Navigating to pre-established way points and natural features with map and compass
- Navigating without Map and Compass
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