Learning how to survive and thrive in remote natural environments, by acquiring skills such as shelter building, fire making, water filtration, navigation, and first aid.
Basic Survival Skills: The basic survival skills are the foundation for all wilderness survival; fire starting, shelter building, water procurement, food gathering, and navigation.
First Aid & Emergency Response: This topic covers knowledge of basic CPR, treating injuries, and how to make a stretcher or a splint.
Shelter Building: Building an effective shelter is essential for survival in any wilderness situation, regardless of how short or long a person will be staying in that location.
Food and Water Procurement: This includes hunting, fishing, trapping, and gathering plant foods, as well as water purification and storage methods.
Navigation: Navigation involves using tools such as maps, compasses, and GPS to find your way in the wilderness.
Fire Building: Building a fire can be essential in wilderness survival because it provides warmth, light, and a means of cooking food.
Signaling for Help: In emergency survival situations, signaling can be critical to be rescued. This includes using a whistle, mirror, or brightly colored objects.
Outdoor Safety and Risk Management: This topic covers knowledge of various types of hazards, including wild animals or poisonous plants, and how to manage potential risks appropriately.
Mental Awareness and Physiological Needs: Wilderness survival can be incredibly physically and emotionally demanding, and knowledge of how to maintain mental and physiological well-being is critical.
Learn Basic Tools for Outdoor Survival: Outdoor survival requires a multitude of tools, including knives, hatchets, saws, and ropes. Understanding how to use these tools appropriately and safely is crucial.
Survival Kits: Survival kits contain essential tools and supplies for a vast range of emergencies, and knowing what equipment to include is essential.
Weather and Climate Awareness: Awareness of weather and climate conditions is critical in outdoor survival, and knowledge of what to expect and how to prepare is essential.
Environmental Awareness and Conservation: An awareness of the environment and conservation is central to outdoor survival, and it's important to understand how human impact can affect the environment.
Wild Edibles: Wild edibles provide an essential food source in wild survival, so being able to identify, prepare, and cook them is necessary.
Trapping and Hunting Techniques: Both trapping and hunting skills are essential to wilderness survival, and knowledge of different techniques, including snaring and tracking, can help in acquiring food.
Water Rescue and Safety: In the event of a water-based outdoor adventure, knowledge of water rescue and safety is vital.
Building Survival Tools: Building survival tools requires knowledge of various techniques, including cordage and shelter building, and knowing how to improvise necessary tools to meet specific needs.
Survival Psychology: The right mindset is critical to outdoor survival, and understanding how to maintain a positive attitude and tackle challenges is vital.
Equipment Maintenance and Repair: Outdoor survival gear requires maintenance and repair, and having the knowledge and skills to maintain the tools necessary for survival is essential.
Survival Communication: Communication in emergency survival situations can be essential, and understanding how to communicate through various means, including radios and flares, is critical.
Shelter building: The ability to construct a shelter using natural resources and basic tools.
Fire making: The ability to start a fire using different methods such as friction, flint and steel, etc.
Water sourcing and purification: The skill to find, collect and purify water sources for drinking.
Navigation: The ability to use a map and compass or other navigational tools to find one’s way in the wilderness.
Food gathering and fishing: Knowledge of what plants and animals are safe to eat, how to catch fish, and how to prepare food in a survival situation.
First aid: Knowing basic first aid and how to treat injuries and illnesses in the wilderness.
Signaling for help: The ability to make signals to attract the attention of rescuers.
Knots and cordage: The ability to tie different types of knots and create useful items with cordage.
Survival psychology: Knowing how to remain calm, positive and focused in a survival situation.
Weather forecasting: The ability to read signs in nature and predict weather changes.
Emergency shelter improvisation: The ability to construct a shelter using whatever materials are available.
Hunting and trapping: The knowledge of how to hunt and trap animals for food.
Tracking: The ability to follow and interpret animal tracks to locate game or find one’s way in the wilderness.
Gear improvisation: The skill to adapt and modify gear as needed to survive.
Rope and harness work: Ability to use ropes and harnesses for climbing and rappelling in the wilderness.
Swimming: Knowing how to swim and rescue oneself and others in water.
Basic wilderness and natural history awareness: Knowledge of plants, animals, weather, and other elements of the natural environment.