This course provides students with the opportunity to learn and develop outdoor survival skills with a focus on the psychology of survival, indigenous living skills, and modern survival skills for the backcountry setting. Students are given the opportunity to develop and improve outdoor survival skills, including fire making, wild plants and their uses, shelter making, water treatment, and other skills that the class is interested in learning. Students also learn to understand and integrate the psychology associated with the fear response and learn to think about maintaining positive psychology throughout a crisis, build and understand how to think about a personalized survival kit, investigate survival situations and how to avoid them, and learn about Leave No Trace outdoor ethics for low impact survival training.
- Teacher: Matthew Vosler