Emergency Wilderness Skills for Mountain Survival

Bushcraft Basic Survival Course

Scenario-Based Training

Stranded Overnight in the Mountains with Minimal Gear

Course Overview

Imagine this: you’re injured or disoriented while hiking deep in the backcountry and forced to spend an unplanned night in the mountains with little more than the clothes on your back and your everyday carry (EDC). This hands-on bushcraft course prepares you to survive — and even thrive — in that exact scenario.

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Through live demonstrations, guided practice, and survival simulations, you’ll learn how to handle the three biggest life-threatening issues in the wild: bleeding out, exposure to the elements, and dehydration.

What you’ll learn!

Foundational Survival Priorities

    •    Rule of 3s: Understand how long the human body can last without air, shelter, water, food, and human contact — and why shelter is your first priority in a survival scenario.

    •    The 10 Cs of Survival — covering essential tools and materials to keep on hand and why.

    •    EDC Discussion: How your everyday carry gear could save your life.

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Shelter Craft

  •    Set up a frame-and-lean-to tarp shelter angled against the wind.

    •    Create a warm bed using debris-stuffed trash bags.

    •    Understand the W’s of Camp Selection:

Wind, Water Access & Flood Path, Widowmakers, and Wood availability.

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 Fire Craft Mastery

 •    Learn both wet-weather batoning and dry-weather twig gathering (toolless) fire-starting methods.

    •    Build efficient fires using log cabin and teepee styles, and base and brace techniques.

    •    Practice with at least 3 types of natural tinder sources: feather sticks, bark, grass bundles, and fatwood.

    •    Learn to source accelerants like sap from conifer trees (needle-bearing evergreens) and sustain your fire using hardwoods like oak and madrone.

    •    Safety note: Learn the dangers of flammable oils and the risk of using river rocks in fire rings.

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 Food & Foraging

    Learn simple wilderness foraging techniques for nutrient sources.

    Discuss high-carb, high-protein snacks for emergency fuel.

First Aid and Bleeding Control

•    Learn and apply the “Triangle of Death” blood circle safety awareness.

    •    Use tourniquets properly and identify life-threatening bleeding situations.

    •    Build situational awareness into all field tasks to avoid injury.

Thermoregulation & Exposure Management

 •    How to rapidly warm a hypothermic body: fire, exercise, hot water bottles, heated rocks (safely), body heat.

    •    How to cool a dangerously overheated body: cold water submersion, shaded rest, wet bandanas, cool fluids.

    •    Understand why cotton kills and how to layer with synthetic or wool-based clothing for survival success.

 Water Sourcing & Purification

•    Locate, collect, filter, and boil water safely.

    •    Discuss the importance of electrolyte replenishment and hydration discipline.

    •    Practice fire-boiling techniques in the field.

Navigation Basics

Understand rudimentary navigation skills using the sun, terrain, and natural clues when GPS fails