Beginning at 9am on a Saturday and finishing at 4pm on the Sunday, the Wilderness Weekend covers all of the principles (Protection, Location, Acquisition of Water/Food, Navigation) including:
- Survival Psychology
- Camp Craft
- Kit selection and packing
- Emergency Preparation
- Fire lighting (in any weather)
- Natural / Improvised shelters
- Traps / Snares / Wilderness Fishing
- Small game tracking, despatching and preparation
- Signalling (ground to air / ground to ground)
- Water sourcing, filtration & purification
- Improvised navigation, including astral navigation and use of natural signs.
Over the course of the weekend, you will have the chance to put together all these skills to build your own shelter using resources you can expect to find in the natural environment. Having built your home for the night, you will enjoy dinner in the open air, next to an open fire, with plenty of opportunity to swap stories and ask more questions of your instructor. You will be given a survival tin to use and take away with you. This is a very hands-on course and students should be prepared to walk distances of up to 5 miles as well as work at a constant rate throughout both days.
Sat/Sun 28/29 May 2011, Stallcombe Wood, Devon
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