Wilderness Survival School is designed to provide the skills and self-confidence to increase your odds of survival in an unexpected stay in the wilderness. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, preventing a survival emergency, psychology/attitude, shelters, signaling, fire craft, and hypothermia. Survival related medical emergencies and other priorities will also be covered. This course includes three Wednesday evening lectures and one overnight field lesson that provides practical training/ experience in a simulated survival situation. This school is particularly informative to the novice/intermediate hiker, but even very experienced CMC members have found this school valuable.
Enrollment is open to all CMC members with ANY level of backcountry experience or hiking classification.
2012 Schedule:
May 16 from 7:00pm – 9:30pm at the CMC
May 23 from 7:00pm – 9:30pm at the CMC
May 30 from 7:00pm – 9:30pm at the CMC
June 2 & 3 Overnight field training exercize
The overnight is not a “sink-or-swim” field trip and we will not be surviving off of roots, berries, wild mushrooms or killing and eating bugs/wildlife. The goal is to learn from a simulated survival situation and to practice skills with the equipment we should normally carry in our daypacks.
Tuition is $47.00. A textbook and some supplies will be provided.
For more information, contact the WSS Director:
John Lindner at 303-431-7575 or John Lindner
