WEEKEND COURSES
CLASS DURATION | 2 or 3 day extended WEEKEND DAYS
3 DAYS
$395 PER PERSON
ALL MATERIALS PROVIDED -
JUST BRING SNACKS, WATER, AND CAMPING SUPPLIES IF CAMPING OUT
6 PERSON MAXIMUM
This is it!
the skills YOU NEED TO Survive anywhere In the Southwest
in one weekend!
During this fun, hands-on course, we'll spend a day at each of the Southwest's major environments (Sonoran Desert, Red Rock Canyon/Juniper Woodlands & Mountains) immersing you in the skills needed to live there!
You'll dive into basic & advanced survival techniques unique to each area we visit:
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Useful Plants- Sample delicious wild edible plants and learn how to identify, and prepare them. Discover incredible medicines in the wild- learning how to use the healing properties of local medicinal plants for each region we visit.
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Hands-on Basic and Advanced Skills! Create comfortable emergency shelters, make fire using modern and fire by friction techniques, 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, agave water bottle, toothbrushes, containers, 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, including improvised fishing gear. You'll even cook a meal off a campfire without modern cookware!
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Navigation- Get lost proof using improvised techniques as well as a map and compass! Learn how to use pace counters, a compass and map to navigate and find your exact location! Make accurate improvised compasses using a stick, the sun and more!
At the end of this exciting course, you will be able to adventure & survive in the deserts, woodlands, and mountains with just a knife and what you have learned!
Learn plants from three major areas!
This is the most useful skills to learn- you can improve your health, add delicious edibles to your meals, and know how to make a variety of useful survival items from the plants growing all around you!
During this fun weekend, you will discover the uses of over 75 plants growing in the Sonoran Desert, Woodlands, and Southwest Mountains!
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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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Tricks for fast identification
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Poisonous plants to avoid
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Make useful items like rope, a fire by friction set, and other hand made survival gear!
Class includes my self-published booklet, Useful Plants of The Southwest.
Don't miss this opportunity to learn the useful plants from the Sonoran Desert, woodlands, AND the mountains of the Southwest!
2 DAYS
$225 PER PERSON
ALL MATERIALS PROVIDED - JUST BRING A KNIFE, SNACKS, WATER, AND CAMPING SUPPLIES IF CAMPING OUT
8 PERSON MAXIMUM
3 DAYS
$495 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
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.
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Outdoor Survival Skills: 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!
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Pistol Tactics & Skills- 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.
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Wilderness First Aid 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!