Survival Courses & Training Tracks
Explore our comprehensive modern fieldcraft courses, ancestral primitive survival immersions, and specialty wilderness workshops. Strictly capped class sizes ensure direct, hands-on instruction.
1. Modern Fieldcraft Track
Designed to establish immediate emergency readiness, reliable gear selection, tarp shelter engineering, and damp-weather firecraft in upper Midwest biomes.
- Introduction to Modern Survival 1 (8 Hours ): Foundational baseline covering EDC selection, rapid tarp pitches, ferro rod ignition, and water purification.
- Modern Survival 2.0 (30-Hour River Immersion): Advanced riverine survival, water travel logistics, and prolonged field execution.
- Modern Survival 3.0 (30-Hour Hardwood Immersion): Intensive cold/damp forest survival and shelter sustainment.
- Modern Survival 4.0 (Winter Survival Course): Sub-zero thermal regulation, snow shelter engineering, extreme cold fire management, and hypothermia prevention.
2. Ancestral Primitive Skills Track
Remove manufactured gear crutches and learn how to thrive directly from the land using traditional friction fire, natural shelters, and toolcraft.
- Primitive Survival Skills #1 (2 Day Course): Bow drill friction fire mechanics, natural lean-to shelters, plant cordage, and trapping triggers.
- Primitive Survival Skills #2 (2 Day Course): Advanced debris huts, no-knife bow drill friction fire, wild game smoking, and coal-burned containers.
- Primitive Survival Skills #3 (4-Day Dual Intensive): Combined 4-day (Friday–Monday) total ancestral immersion covering both Primitive 1 and 2 tracks back-to-back.
3. Specialty Workshops & Woodcraft
Targeted 1-day workshops focusing on specific survival crafts, apothecary preparations, and land navigation.
- Campfire Creations (3hrs ): Green wood carving, spoon and utensil crafting, and coal-burned containers.
- Wild Plant Tinctures & Salves (1 Day ): Foraging medicinal flora and preparing liquid tinctures and beeswax-infused first-aid salves.
- Land Navigation (1 Day ): Map reading, compass bearings, declination, and terrain association.
- Family Survival Day (1 Day ): Essential outdoor safety, child-friendly shelter building, and basic signaling for parents and youth.
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View our complete 2027 calendar for dates, class capacities, and registration details across all training tracks.
✓ Strictly capped class sizes (5–25 max)
✓ Gear checklists sent upon confirmation
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