5 Day Outdoor Survival Basics 101

The 5 Day Outdoor Survival Skills Training covers the basics or survival and outdoor skills with shelter, water, food and various other basic and advanced skills.

In this course we will focus on both primitive and modern survival techniques with an emphasis on a few basic tools that you should have in your backpack when venturing out into the wilderness. This course will prepare you for situations that people tend to find themselves in when things go wrong in the wilderness. Outside of a survival situation, this class will simply allow you to feel more comfortable in the woods

The Outdoor Survival Skills Training course is all hands on field training, with minimal lectures and no power point presentations. Prepare to get your hands dirty!

This class is based on the well known and utilized survival standard Rule of Threes. In general, a human can survive 3 minutes without air, 3 hours exposed to the element, three days without water and three weeks without food. Each day we will cover a different topic with the first day teaching you many basic survival techniques that you will continue to use throughout the week. We will go over basics of survival, shelter, fire, water, food, primitive tools, survival kit preparation and more! With these basics outdoor skills, you will feel more comfortable every time you throw on that pack and head out onto a trail.

With the universal skills taught, you will know what it takes to survive in almost any environment or condition and lead you into total wilderness self reliance. The outdoor survival skills training is all-inclusive as it covers many different subjects about wilderness survival skills and these skills will work in every region around the world in almost all climates.
While the outdoor survival skills training is in-depth families are welcome and encouraged to attend the course for learning outdoor skills in a family friendly environment.

Self Reliance skills truly give you an empowered feeling because after your training with Colorado Mountain Man Survival, you will be confident to walk into any environment and take care of yourself, your friends, and your family.

​Survival Skills Taught include:

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• Psychology of Survival
  
• The Priorities of Survival
  
• Fire Craft (both primitive and modern)
  
• Survival Shelters (both primitive and modern)
  
• Finding, Filtering, and Purifying Water
  
• Passive techniques for Food (Land and Water Based)
  
• Edible, Useful, and Medicinal Plants
  
• Knot Tying
  
• Primitive Navigation Methods
  
• Primitive Tool Making
  
• Survival Kit Preparation
  
• Wild Edible and Medicinal Plant Uses (when plants are in season)
  
• Choosing and using tools for Survival (both primitive and modern