Adventure with confidence knowing you have the skills to handle the unexpected!
Whether you’re new to the outdoors or looking to sharpen your skills, this course gives you the essential skills to adventure farther, stay safer, and handle an unexpected wilderness emergency!
What you'll learn:
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Get Geared up! Essential gear every outdoor adventurer should carry. Learn how to build both basic and advanced survival kits and confidently use each item when it matters most.
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Emergency shelters Stay warm, dry, and protected by building emergency shelters from both natural and modern materials
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Survival firecraft Learn to create fire when it matters most—and keep it alive when nature is working against you.
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water Learn how to locate, collect, and purify water when clean drinking water isn't available.
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Knife skills for survival Build confidence using your knife for carving, cutting, feathering, and essential camp tasks.
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useful knots Simple, reliable knots for shelters, around camp, and everyday wilderness use.
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Wilderness First Aid When help is hours or days away, your skills matter! Learn practical, field-tested techniques for treating the most common outdoor injuries—the "5 B's": bleeding, bites & stings, breaks, blisters, and burns.
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navigation Get lost proof! Never wonder where you are again. Learn map, compass, and natural navigation techniques to confidently travel off trail.
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Review anytime You'll get a student manual with step by step directions, photos, and illustrations so you can review at home!
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Complete Package-SAVE $100
Taking you from beginner to living in the wilderness with just a knife!
Sign up for all three courses as a bundle and save!
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Essential Skills & Useful Plants- Build core outdoor skills and learn the edible and medicinal plants in your region.
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Survive & Thrive- Skills for living in the wild with just a knife.
PLUS, you'll receive:
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Our complete Survival Video Series
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Alumni adventures and fun events!
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Save $100 on your training journey!
Course Details
Length: One day
Class Size: Limited to 6 students
Tuition: $150
What's Included:
✓ All materials- including student manual
✓ Delicious wild food lunch (venison & wild edibles)
✓ Use of necessary gear
✓ Expert instruction and small class size to ensure your success!
Our Guarantee: Full refund if you're not completely satisfied.
Private courses available:
Pick your own date and create your own custom course!
Send us a message and we'll design the perfect adventure for you!
public course dates:
Phoenix:
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JANUARY 24, 2026 (Sold out!)
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APRIL 11, 2026 (Sold out!)
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OCTOBER 25, 2026
Tucson:
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MARCH 14, 2026 (Sold out!)
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NOVEMBER 14, 2026
Sedona:
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MAY 16, 2026 (Sold out!)
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SEPTEMBER 26, 2026
Sample delicious wild foods, and learn how to stay healthy using our incredible Southwest plants!
Discover how to recognize, harvest, and use the incredible plants growing all around you.
In this hands-on course, you’ll sample wild foods, learn practical medicinal uses, and traditional skills that turn native plants into food, medicine, and essential survival tools.
What you'll learn:
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edible plants Sample delicious wild edibles- learn how to prepare them, and easy identification tricks!
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medicinal plants Heal ailments and injuries with wild local herbs- bleeding, bites & stings, sunburn, and so much more!!!
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Traditional items see traditional items made from these unique plants- everything from arrows to yucca sandals!
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Review anytime You'll get a copy of my Useful Plants of the Southwest book featuring the plants we covered during the course!
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Complete Package-SAVE $100
Taking you from beginner to living in the wilderness with just a knife!
Sign up for all three courses as a bundle and save!
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Essential Skills & Useful Plants- Build core outdoor skills and learn the edible and medicinal plants in your region.
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Survive & Thrive- Skills for living in the wild with just a knife.
PLUS, you'll receive:
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Our complete Survival Video Series
-
Alumni adventures and fun events!
-
Save $100 on your training journey!
Course Details
Length: 5 hours
Class Size: Limited to 6 students
Tuition: $80
What's Included:
✓ All materials- including Useful Plants of the Southwest book
✓ Delicious plant samples
✓ Plant notebook
✓ Expert instruction and small class size to ensure your success!
Our Guarantee: Full refund if you're not completely satisfied.
Private Courses available:
Pick your own date and create your own custom course!
Send us a message and we'll design the perfect day for you!
public course dates:
Phoenix: Sonoran Desert Plants
APRIL 12, 2026 (Sold out!)
Tucson: Sonoran Desert Plants
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MARCH 15, 2026 (Sold out!)
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NOVEMBER 15, 2026
Sedona: Red Rock Canyons/ Woodland Plants
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MAY 17, 2026 (Sold out!)
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2026
Flagstaff: Mountain Forest Plants
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AUGUST 24, 2026
Provide for all you need with just a knife & traditional skills!
Over this immersive weekend, you’ll practice everything from wildcrafting tools and primitive fire-making to shelter building, hunting skills, fishing techniques, and camp cooking—bringing together the core skills of wilderness self-reliance.
What you'll learn:
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Wildcrafted items Turn the desert into your toolbox! Transform native plants into useful everyday items, including yucca rope, agave water bottles, soap, toothbrushes, and other useful items.
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Flintknapping Transform river cobbles into razor-sharp stone blades and tools. Learn the techniques our ancestors used to create cutting tools long before metal existed!
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Primitive Shelters Turn the wilderness into a comfortable home. Build sturdy A-frame shelters, create heated stone beds, and weave natural grass blankets to stay protected from the elements
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Fire From Friction Create fire the ancient way! Carve your own bow drill and hand drill fire-making sets from natural materials, then experience the thrill of creating a fire from nothing but wood, skills, and determination!
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campfire cooking Make a meal using only handmade cookware- craft a wooden bowl using campfire coals, cook a wild food stew using only hot stones, cook meat off of green stick grills, and more!
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Awareness & Tracking Identify and interpret tracks, sharpen your senses, move naturally, blend and stalk close undetected
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Traps & Snares Put nature to work for you! Learn how to construct effective snares and deadfall traps that can continue hunting around the clock while you focus on other survival priorities.
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Hunting Tools Carve rabbit sticks, Apache Stars, and other primitive hunting tools, then learn how to use these simple yet effective items for harvesting small game in a wilderness survival situation.
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Primitive Fishing Skills Turn streams, ponds, and lakes into a reliable food source. Weave fishing nets, craft improvised hooks from natural materials, and build fish pens designed to collect crayfish and fish.
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Review anytime You'll get a student manual with step by step directions, photos, and illustrations so you can review at home!
-
Complete Package-SAVE $100
Taking you from beginner to living in the wilderness with just a knife!
Sign up for all three courses as a bundle and save!
-
Essential Skills & Useful Plants- Build core outdoor skills and learn the edible and medicinal plants in your region.
-
Survive & Thrive- Skills for living in the wild with just a knife!
PLUS, you'll receive:
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Our complete Survival Video Series
-
Alumni adventures and fun events!
-
Save $100 on your training journey!
Course Details
Length: Weekend
Class Size: Limited to 6 students
Tuition: $450
What's Included:
✓ All materials
✓ All meals
✓ Use of necessary gear
✓ Expert instruction and small class size to ensure your success!
Optional camping with us, or show up each day.
Our Guarantee: Full refund if you're not completely satisfied.
Private adventures available:
Pick your own date and create your own custom course!
Send us a message and we'll design the perfect adventure for you!
public course dates:
Phoenix:
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FEBRUARY 28- MARCH 1, 2026 (Sold out!)
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MARCH 28- MARCH 29, 2026 (Sold out!)
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APRIL 25 - APRIL 26, 2026 (Sold out!)
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OCTOBER 17 - OCTOBER 18, 2026
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NOVEMBER 7 - NOVEMBER 8, 2026
Sedona:
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MAY 9- MAY 10, 2026 (Sold out!)
Payson:
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JUNE 13- JUNE 14, 2026 (Sold out!)
Craving a real hands-on wilderness adventure?
This is for you!
Step into a true wilderness expedition!
Over three days, you’ll travel ultralight, live entirely from the land, and develop the skills to build shelter, make fire, craft essential tools, and source food using traditional hunting and gathering techniques.
you will experience:
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Traveling ultralight - Heading into the wilderness with a knife, poncho, water bottle, and minimal food, you'll travel cross-country through the wilderness using improvised navigation skills.
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Living wild- Make what you need with only a knife! Sleep in a cozy shelter, start a campfire with fire by friction, craft useful gear like an agave water bottle, improvised cookware, toothbrushes, sleeping mats, yucca sandals, and so much MORE!
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Hunting & Gathering Skills- You'll eat traditional foods (mesquite & acorn flour, dried beans, deer jerky, roasted agave, etc...), delicious native plants and what we catch using traps and primitive fishing techniques.
Course Details
Length: Three-day weekend adventure
Class Size: Limited to 4 students per expedition
Tuition: $825
What's Included:
✓ All materials
✓ All meals
✓ Use of necessary gear
✓ Expert instruction and small class size to ensure your success!
Our Guarantee: Full refund if you're not completely satisfied.
Private adventures available:
Pick your own date and create your own custom course!
Send us a message and we'll design the perfect adventure for you!
public adventure dates:
SEDONA:
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APRIL 17 - APRIL 19, 2026 (sold out)
PAYSON:
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MAY 29 - MAY 31, 2026 (sold out)
PHOENIX:
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APRIL 3 - APRIL 5, 2026 (sold out)
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OCTOBER 9 - OCTOBER 11, 2026
Build Your Own Primitive Bow & Arrow!
Experience the skills that sustained hunters for thousands of years.
In this immersive, hands-on weekend, you'll transform natural materials into a fully functional bow and arrow set—crafted with your own hands from start to finish.
What you will learn:
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Flintknapping Shape raw stone into a razor-sharp arrowhead using traditional techniques and an antler tine. Discover one of humanity's oldest and most remarkable survival skills.
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Crafting the Arrow Create a custom arrow using hand-trimmed feathers for fletching, then attach your stone point using natural pitch glue and deer sinew—just as skilled hunters did for generations.
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Bow Making Bring a piece of wood to life! Using only a knife and simple hand tools, you'll craft your own primitive bow and complete it with a hand-twisted bowstring. By the end of the course, you'll have a bow built by you, for you!
Course Details
Length: Three-day weekend adventure (optional camping available)
Class Size: Limited to 6 students for personalized instruction
Tuition: $525
What's Included:
✓ All materials
✓ All meals
✓ Use of necessary gear
✓ Expert instruction and small class size to ensure your success!
Just bring a sleeping bag—we'll provide the rest!
Our Guarantee: Full refund if you're not completely satisfied.
Private courses available:
Pick your own date and create your own custom course!
Send us a message and we'll design the perfect adventure for you!
public course dates:
Phoenix:
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OCTOBER 23 - 25, 2026 (Sold out)
Learn from the legend of desert survival!
Meet renowned herbalist, wilderness expert, and author, Peter Bigfoot as we team up to share our skills during an incredible 5- day immersion into desert survival & wilderness living at his off the grid oasis- Reevis Mountain Ranch!
What you'll learn:
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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 healing a variety of injuries, and illnesses.
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basic & advanced survival skills Create comfortable emergency shelters for staying warm and dry 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, and purify water.
And more!
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get geared up! Make your own survival gear right from nature- making rope, an agave water bottle, toothbrushes, sharp stone blades, pitch glue, and 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.
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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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improvised navigation Get lost proof when modern tools fail!
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Map & Compass Skills Use a map and compass to find where you are, and accurately travel off trail!
Course Details
Length: Six day adventure (camping, or rental cabins also available)
Class Size: Limited to 10 students for personalized instruction
Tuition: $625
What's Included:
✓ All materials
✓ All meals (buffet style organic, home grown meals!!!)
✓ Use of necessary gear
✓ Expert instruction
Just bring your camping gear or rent out a cabin—we'll provide the rest!
Our Guarantee: Full refund if you're not completely satisfied.
public course dates:
Reevis Mountain Ranch- Roosevelt, AZ:
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OCTOBER 1 - OCTOBER 6 2026
From survival and bushcraft to navigation, first aid, and desert ecology, every skill is taught through direct experience!
What you'll learn:
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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 healing a variety of injuries, and illnesses.
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basic & advanced survival skills Create comfortable emergency shelters for staying warm and dry 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, and purify water. And more!
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get geared up! Make your own survival gear right from nature- making rope, an agave water bottle, toothbrushes, sharp stone blades, pitch glue, and items for living in the wild!
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Wilderness First Aid Patient assessments, trauma care for common situations, breathing, bleeding, burns, fractures, bites & stings, and medical symptoms from environmental conditions (heat stroke, hypothermia, etc) Practice scenarios involving typical injuries and illnesses encountered on desert expeditions.
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Search and Rescue Self-rescue and signaling: learn strategies to effect self-rescue including different signaling methods for search parties and communication protocols
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Guiding & Leadership Skills Learn the skills to plan, organize, and safely guide people in the wilderness. Through daily trainings, you'll learn leadership skills, and techniques and tips for keeping the group healthy and happy.
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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.
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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, green stick grills, and coal burned bowls.
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improvised navigation Get lost proof when modern tools fail!
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Map & Compass Skills Use a map and compass to find where you are, and accurately travel off trail!
Course Details
Length: 28 days split into two sessions
Class Size: Limited to students for personalized instruction
Tuition: $3,250
What's Included:
✓ All materials
✓ All meals
✓ Use of necessary gear
✓ Expert instruction
Just bring your camping gear—we'll provide the rest!
Our Guarantee: Full refund if you're not completely satisfied.
public course dates:
(The 28 day courses are broken into 14 day sessions):
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Module 1: Sept 27 - Oct 10, 2026
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Module 1: May 23 - June 5, 2027
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Module 2: Oct 11 - 24, 2026
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Module 2: June 6 - 19, 2027