Bushcraft Survival Skills

​

Syllabus may include but not limited to:

First Aid:

• Safety first

• Hypothermia

• Shock

• Cuts

• Burns

• Breaks

• sprains

• illness

• improvised medicines and first aid tools

 

Shelter:

• W4

• Emergency Shelters

• Permanent Shelter Options

• Creating a Bivouac Site

 

Fire:

• Elements important to survival

• Fire Food

• Primitive Fire Starting

• Friction method

• Spark method

• Fire by other means (incl. solar, wrapper etc)

 

 

Signals:

• Trail blazing signs

• Native American/indigenous signs

• Audible Signal types

• Visual Signal types

• Ground to Air

 

Water:

• Locating water sources

• Water purification methods

• Solar stills

 

Food:

• Identifying positive food sources

• Edible plants

• Edible animals  

• Cooking methods

• Food storage and preservation

• What to avoid

 

Trapping:

• Animal signs

• Animal behaviours

• Trap building

• Fishing methods

 

 

Tools:

• Types of tools useful for survival in the wilderness

• Sticks, Stones, Stumps & Spears

  • throwing & digging sticks,

  • Stone wedges and other stone uses,

  • Stump Anvils

  • Making Mauls, Mallets & Hatchets

  • Making a wood Bow

  • Making arrows

  • Cordage and Ropes

  • Nets & Net making

  • Containers

  • Making a shadow board

​

​

​​

Prerequisites:

• WSSGK encouraged, but not required

 

Duration: 4 days

​

Maximum Instructor to Participant Ratio: 1:6

Cost: $600 + tax

​