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:
Useful Wild Plants
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Sample lots of delicious wild edibles
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Learn healing properties of local medicinal plants
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Make salves, tinctures, and powders for healing
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Tricks for fast identification
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Poisonous plants to avoid
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Make plant fiber rope, agave water bottle, toothbrushes, and other field gear!
Basic & Advanced Survival
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Create comfortable emergency shelters
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Make fire using modern and fire by friction techniques
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Find, make, and purify water
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Bake, boil, and cook your meal over a campfire without modern cookware!
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Expedient tools like sharp blades from river cobbles, pitch glue, and more!
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Navigate using improvised methods
Hunting
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Identify animals in the area using tracks and other signs
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Learn to make effective snares and deadfall traps for birds, and small mammals
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Craft traditional hunting items like rabbit hunting sticks, slings, spear throwers, and more!
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Make fishing tackle- hooks, nets, and more!
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Flint-knap an arrowhead out of stone
Wilderness Medicine
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Be prepared with Wilderness first aid for potential injuries in the field
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Learn how to heal common complaints using effective acupressure techniques
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!
Discover what it takes to survive in the deserts, woodlands, and mountains of Arizona!
We'll spend two days in each of the Southwest's major environments immersing you into the survival skills needed to live there!
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Useful plants in three major regions of Arizona
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Master basic and advanced fire skills
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Find, make, and purify water
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Emergency shelters for every environment/condition
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Become lost proof in the deserts and mountains
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Feed yourself with traditional hunting & fishing items
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Create a wide variety of essential gear from nature!
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Learn wilderness first aid skills for desert & mountain conditions
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Make your own hunting bow and arrows
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And much, much more!!!
This is certainly the ultimate course in wilderness self-reliance that will provide you with an incredible depth of knowledge!
Because of the diversity of locations and depth of training you will experience, you will be able to travel anywhere with just a knife and be able to thrive!
6 DAYS
$625 PER PERSON
ALL MATERIALS PROVIDED - JUST BRING A KNIFE, SNACKS, AND CAMPING GEAR IF YOU ARE CAMPING OUT - 4 PERSON MAXIMUM
4 DAYS
$425 PER PERSON
ALL MATERIALS PROVIDED - JUST BRING A KNIFE, SNACKS, WATER,AND CAMPING GEAR IF YOU ARE CAMPING OUT - 4 PERSON MAXIMUM
Complete a handcrafted bow and traditional arrows FROM SCRATCH!
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.
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 fletchings to them using hand-trimmed feathers & hide glue. You'll finish your arrow off by attaching the arrowhead you made from the flint-knapping portion of class, and field points using pitch glue and deer sinew.
Bow Making
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!
The grid is down, shelves are empty, and there
are riots in the streets!
Your friend is injured and there’s no hospital…
No worries!
Hopefully we never have to deal with a complete worse-case scenario, but bad weather, and other surprises can bring us to a stand-still until the system gets up and running again. Until then, what do you do?
This course will give you hands-on skills for when your life is in danger, and no help is coming. Learn how to take care of yourself in the wilderness with just a knife and survival skills- construct simple shelters to keep you warm and dry, find, make and purifying water, start a fire with modern and primitive methods, navigate accurately without a compass, catch your meal with snares and traps!
Shooting at paper targets is fun, but they don’t shoot back! This course also gives you a beginning level overview of pistol training in the skills and tactics used by special operation teams to deal with real-world scenarios.
Medical emergencies happen fast in the field! Know what to do before you head out! We’ll polish your wilderness medical skills for commonly occurring injuries in the field-bleeding, breathing, breaks, burns, bites, blisters and more!
After this course, you will certainly have the skills to deal with your self-protection, wilderness survival, and medical needs when no help is available!
3 DAYS
$395 PER PERSON
ALL MATERIALS PROVIDED - JUST BRING A KNIFE, SNACKS, WATER, PISTOL, HOLSTER, 50 ROUNDS AMMO, AND CAMPING GEAR IF YOU ARE CAMPING OUT - 6 PERSON MAXIMUM
Wondering if you could really survive in the wilderness? Then, this is your course!
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 will truly learn to carry less during this adventure, as you experience living in the wild with just a knife and traditional skills!
Useful Wild Plants
-
Sample lots of delicious wild edibles
-
Learn healing properties of local medicinal plants
-
Make plant fiber rope, an agave water bottle, toothbrushes, and other field gear!
Basic & Advanced Survival
-
Create comfortable emergency shelters
-
Make fire using modern and fire by friction techniques
-
Find, make, and purify water
-
Bake, boil, and cook your meal over a campfire without modern cookware!
-
Expedient tools like sharp blades from river cobbles, pitch glue, and more!
-
Navigate using improvised methods
Hunting
-
Identify animals in the area using tracks and other signs
-
Learn to make effective snares and deadfall traps for birds, and small mammals
-
Craft traditional hunting items like rabbit hunting sticks, slings, spear throwers, and more!
-
Make fishing tackle- hooks, nets, and more!
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And more!
You'll also 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.
After this adventure, you will know how to travel ultra- light, and be able to survive in the wilderness with just a knife!