SCHEDULE

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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
• Edible Plants

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

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

Signaling 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

• 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 (a measure of its average length over varied terrain) 
  • Drawing a map from information gathered in the field with compass and pacing.
    • Keeping Field Notes
    Compass Triangulation (Resectioning) in the field to find your position on a map
  • Navigating to pre-established waypoints and natural features  with map and compass
  • Navigating without Map and Compass