MULTI-DAY COURSES
CLASS DURATION | 3-6 DAYS
4 DAYS
$595 PER PERSON
(INCLUDES ALL MATERIALS, AUTOGRAPHED BOOK, FARM FRESH ORGANIC MEALS, CAMP IN YOUR TENT, OR UPGRADE TO A CABIN) - 10 PERSON MAXIMUM
WONDERING HOW TO LIVE FULL TIME IN THE WILDERNESS? THEN DON'T MISS THIS!
Join Southwest Survival's Jon Helleson and legendary herbalist, wilderness expert, and author, Peter Bigfoot as they team up to share their skills during an incredible 4-day immersion into wilderness living!
Nestled in the beautiful Superstition Mountains, Reevis Mountain is a true oasis in the desert! We’ll stay at Peter Bigfoot’s incredible off the grid homestead paradise he has created in the wilderness- you’ll see true self-reliance in action!
Here are just some of the hands-on skills you will experience:
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Useful Plants- Sample delicious wild edible plants and learn how to identify and prepare them. Discover incredible local medicinal plants- and make salves, tinctures, and powders for healing a variety of injuries, and illnesses.
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Basic and Advanced Survival Skills! Create comfortable emergency shelters for staying warm and dry in the mountains and staying cool in the Sonoran Desert. Make fire using modern and multiple fire by friction techniques (hand drill, fire saw, and bow drill). Learn life-saving water skills- how to find, make, and purify water. And more!
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Hunting skills- Hungry? No problem! Identify animals in the area using tracks and other signs and learn to make effective snares, deadfall traps, and hunting items (atlatls, & more.). You will also learn how to make improvised fishing gear.
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Navigation- Get lost proof! Learn a ton of improvised techniques for accurate navigation!
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Get geared up! You'll make your own survival gear right from nature- making rope, an agave water bottle, toothbrushes, sharp stone blades, pitch glue, and other items for living in the wild!
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Campfire Cooking - Cook a meal off a campfire without modern cookware! Learn how to pit bake, boil using hot stones, and make useful cookware items like tongs, and coal burned bowls.
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Wilderness Medicine -Be prepared before you head out with Wilderness first aid for potential injuries in the field! Learn the ancient skills of how to heal common complaints using effective acupressure techniques that really work!
After this course, you will be able to thrive in the outdoors with just a knife and the skills we teach you, and you will certainly be inspired to make your own off the grid homestead by Peter Bigfoot’s accomplishments at Reevis Ranch!
The most comprehensive skills course offered!
Ever wish there was a super fun, hands-on immersion into wilderness skills?
You found it!
This course is perfect for anyone ready to learn a jaw-dropping amount of skills for living in the wild!
You will train in a wide range of environments as well! The Sonoran Desert, red rock canyons, and mountains will become your home!
This course is absolutely jam-packed with skills:
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Navigation- Get lost proof! Learn a ton of improvised techniques for accurate navigation! And learn how to use a map and compass to find where you are, estimate your pace, and to plot your course!
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Traditional Archery- Flint knap an arrowhead from scratch! Make an arrow using local natural materials and learn how to carve your own hunting bow!
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Useful Plants- Sample delicious wild edible plants and learn how to identify and prepare them. Discover incredible local medicinal plants for each region we visit- the Sonoran Desert, Red Rock Canyons, and Mountains. You'll learn to make salves, tinctures, and powders for healing a variety of injuries, and illnesses.
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Basic and Advanced Skills! Create comfortable emergency shelters for staying warm and dry in the mountains and staying cool in the Sonoran Desert. Make fire using modern and multiple fire by friction techniques (hand drill, fire saw, and bow drill). Learn life-saving water skills- how to find, make, and purify water. And more!
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Get geared up! You'll make your own survival gear right from nature- making rope, an agave water bottle, toothbrushes, juniper bark containers, yucca sandals, sharp stone blades, pitch glue, and other items for living in the wild!
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Hunting skills- Hungry? No problem! Identify animals in the area using tracks and other signs and learn to make effective snares, deadfall traps, and hunting items (atlatls, & more.). You will also learn how to make improvised fishing gear.
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Campfire Cooking - Cook a meal off a campfire without modern cookware! Learn how to field dress animals you catch, and how to pit bake, boil using hot stones, and make useful cookware items like tongs, and coal burned bowls.
When you are done with this course you will be a wilderness superhero ready for awesome adventures in the wild!
7 DAYS
$795 per person
ALL MATERIALS PROVIDED - JUST BRING A KNIFE, SNACKS, WATER, AND LUNCH FOR EACH DAY, AND OPTIONAL CAMPING GEAR IF YOU ARE CAMPING OUT
1 DAY- ARROW MAKING
2 DAYS- BOW MAKING
Arrow-$100 PER PERSON
Bow-$225 PER PERSON
ALL MATERIALS PROVIDED - JUST BRING A KNIFE, SNACKS, WATER,AND OPTIONAL CAMPING GEAR IF YOU ARE CAMPING OUT
4 PERSON MAXIMUM FOR EACH COURSE
Complete a handcrafted bow and traditional arrows FROM SCRATCH!
Arrow Making- 1 day
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Flintknapping- You'll start your arrow making course with learning how to make an arrowhead! You'll learn how to strike off stone blades from cobbles, use an antler baton to carefully shape the stone flake into an arrowhead blank, then with an antler tine, you will pressure flake the edge to strengthen and sharpen it.
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Crafting the Arrow- In the next portion, we'll start crafting your arrow. I'll show you how to find, and straighten an arrow shaft. Then, you'll learn how to add the feathers using hand-trimmed feathers & hide glue. You'll finish your arrow off by attaching the arrowhead you made from the flintknapping portion of class, and field points using pitch glue and deer sinew.
Bow Making- 2 days
Build your own beautiful, handmade bow for hunting or target practice fun!
Based on traditional styles of Southwest tribes, you'll learn how to start from a sapling and work through the steps of carving and tillering to complete a custom made bow using just a knife, and other simple hand tools. We'll then make it come alive with a hand-twined bow string to match.
These bows are fast, accurate, and super fun to shoot!
Wondering if you could really survive in the wilderness? Then, this is your course!
Stop watching all those Survival T.V. shows, and join us on a real outdoor adventure!
Gather wild foods, and cook them over a fire you made from a hand-carved fire by friction set! Sleep in a shelter you made yourself!
And so much more!
You'll learn how to travel super light! You'll head off into the wild with just a knife and a small backpack of items- flint & steel, some string, 2 water bottles, an army poncho, pocket-sized emergency blanket, & some food.
During your adventure, you will be using basic & advanced survival techniques- including making comfortable shelters, starting your fire by friction techniques, and purifying water using improvised techniques.
Enjoy sampling new foods as you eat lots of delicious wild edibles and learn how to effectively use snares, traps, and other hunting items. We'll cook off of a campfire without any modern cookware- baking, boiling, and heating your meal using traditional methods.
Along the way, you'll make your own survival gear like plant fiber rope, an agave water bottle, toothbrushes, and other items!
You will truly learn to carry less during this adventure, as you experience living in the wild with just a knife and traditional skills!
