Don't know where to start?
This is your class!
You'll learn essential outdoor skills for your next adventure, or for an unexpected emergency!
1 Day • $150 • Class limit- 6
During this fun, hands-on day you will:
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Build emergency shelters
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Start fires using basic & advanced skills
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Find desert water sources & field purification
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Use outdoor knife techniques
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Tie useful knots
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Apply wilderness first aid for common injuries
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Navigate using map & compass
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Use improvised navigation techniques
Includes everything you'll need, lunch, and our Essential Skills Field Guide!
Upcoming dates:
Want your own private class instead?
Contact us to book your own private survival training!
PHOENIX:
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January 24, 2026 Filled
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April 11, 2026 Filled
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October 25, 2026 Filled
TUCSON:
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March 14, 2026 Filled
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November 14, 2026 Filled
SEDONA:
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May 16, 2026 Filled
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September 26, 2026 Filled
Want to go beyond emergency survival?
Learn to live with just a knife and what nature provides!
1 Day • $200 • Class limit - 6
During this fun, hands-on day you will:
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Make a fire by friction! (bow & hand drill)
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Craft an agave water bottle, yucca rope, and more!
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Flintknap stone blades
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Learn to track and read the landscape
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Carve traps & snares for small game
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Make hunting & fishing tools
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Take home a survival kit crafted from nature!
We provide everything, including lunch!
Upcoming dates:
Want your own private class instead?
Contact us to book your own private survival training!
PHOENIX:
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February. 8, 2026 Filled
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March 14, 2026 Filled
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April 18, 2026 Filled
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November 7, 2026 Filled
SEDONA:
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May 2, 2026 Filled
PAYSON
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June 20, 2026 Filled
Gather FREE food anytime you want!
Heal yourself and those you care about!
Stop missing out!
Learn about these wonderful plants growing all around you!
1/2 Day • $80 • Class limit- 6
During this fun, hands-on course you will:
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Identify 20–30 common Southwest plants
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Learn how to heal with medicinal plants
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See traditional items made from the area
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Learn how to harvest and process edible plants
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Includes my book, Southwest Useful Plants
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Use easy plant identification tricks
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Sample lots of delicious wild edibles!
Upcoming dates:
Want your own private class instead?
Contact us to book your own private survival training!
PHOENIX- Sonoran Desert Plants
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April 12, 2026 Filled
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October 24, 2026 Available
TUCSON- Sonoran Desert Plants
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March 15, 2026 Filled
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November 15, 2026 Available
SEDONA- Red Rock Canyons/ Woodland Plants
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May 17, 2026 Filled
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September 27, 2026 Filled
PAYSON- Mountain Forest Plants
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August 23, 2026 Filled
Want all three of our most popular courses in one weekend?!
Here it is!
Combine Essential Survival Skills, Useful Plants, and Wild Skills into an incredible weekend of basic & advanced skills!
2 Days • $425 • Class limit - 6
During this fun, hands-on course you will:
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Build emergency shelters
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Use basic & advanced fire making skills
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Craft survival items from nature
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Learn edible & medicinal plants
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Find desert water sources & field purification
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Use outdoor knife techniques
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Tie useful knots
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Apply wilderness first aid for common injuries
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Navigate with & without a compass & map
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Flintknap stone blades
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Track & read the landscape
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Make traps & snares for small game
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Learn nature awareness skills
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Make hunting & fishing tools
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Cook on a campfire using traditional techniques
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Take home a survival kit crafted from nature!
We provide everything, including all meals!
(Camp Saturday night with us, or meet us Sunday morning!)
Upcoming dates:
Want your own private class instead?
Contact us to book your own private survival training!
PHOENIX:
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Feb. 28- Mar. 1, 2026 Filled
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March 28- 29, 2026 Filled
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April 25- 26, 2026 Filled
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October 17- 18, 2026 Filled
SEDONA:
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May 9- 10, 2026 Filled
PAYSON
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June 13- 14, 2026 Filled
Love watching survival t.v. shows?!
Get off that couch and come join us!
Experience living from the land on a real wilderness adventure!
3 Days • $625 • Class limit- 4
During this fun, hands-on course you will:
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Travel overland with minimal gear
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Hunt small game with traditional tools
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Make fire from friction
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Harvest and eat wild plants
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Use wild plant medicines
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Craft what you need from nature
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Find, collect & purify water
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Make primitive traps and snares
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Practice traditional fishing skills
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Campfire cook with handmade items
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Sleep comfortably in natural shelters
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Prepare traditional traveling foods (mesquite flour, roasted agave, pemmican etc...) .
You will live off the wild, all extra gear is provided!
Upcoming dates:
Want your own private class instead?
Contact us to book your own private survival training!
SEDONA:
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April 17- April 19, 2026 Filled
PAYSON:
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May 29- May 31, 2026 Filled
PHOENIX:
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April 3- April 5, 2026 Filled
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October 9- October 11, 2026 Filled
From tree to target!
Make your own archery gear from scratch using traditional skills and local materials!
3 Days • $425 • Class limit- 4
You will learn hands-on:
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Flintknapping arrowheads
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Nature awareness & tracking
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Arrow making
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Carving techniques
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Bow crafting skills
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Traditional shooting skills
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We provide all materials
Optional base camping with us, or stay in town and show up in the morning!
Upcoming dates:
PHOENIX:
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October 23- 25, 2026 Filled
Peter Bigfoot- 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 wilderness living course at his off the grid oasis- Reevis Mountain Ranch!
5 Days • $650 • Class limit- 10
Learn hands-on during this amazing 5 days:
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Useful plants
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Emergency & primitive Shelters
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Wildcrafted survival gear
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Flintknapping
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Basic & advanced survival skills
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Awareness & tracking
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Traps & snares
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Hunting tools
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Wilderness first aid
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Primitive cooking methods
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Improvised navigation, map & compass
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Includes EVERYTHING & all meals (buffet style organic, home grown meals!!!) Just bring your camping gear or rent out a cabin
Upcoming dates:
October 1- October 6, 2026 Filled
Train to confidently guide others through the desert and wild lands of the Southwest!
28 Days • $3,200 • Class limit- 6
During this incredible immersion into the wilderness, you will learn:
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Useful plants
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Desert ecology
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Southwest traditional cultures
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Wildcrafted survival gear
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Flintknapping
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Basic & advanced survival skills
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Traditional hunting tools & skills
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Primitive fishing techniques
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Wilderness first aid
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Self-rescue techniques
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Guiding & leadership skills
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Primitive cooking methods
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Improvised navigation, map & compass
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Just bring your camping gear—we'll provide all the rest!
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 continued: May 23 - June 5, 2027
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Module 2: Oct 11 - 24, 2026
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Module 2 continued: June 6 - 19, 2027