24-Hour Overnight

Intermediate Survival Course

Deepen Your Skills | Test Your Mindset | Sleep in the Wild

Take your survival knowledge to the next level with this intermediate-level, overnight training in the alpine backcountry of Northern California.

This course is an extension of the Basic Day Trip Survival Class, designed for those ready to go further. This time, you’ll sleep in the shelter you build, source water, tend fire through the night, and deepen your relationship with the wild.

What You’ll Experience

 24 hours immersed in a remote alpine environment

  • 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.

Build and sleep in your own natural shelter

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

      

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

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

Identify native plants and trees

  •    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.

 Food & Foraging

    Learn simple wilderness foraging techniques for nutrient sources.

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

 Learn geography and terrain navigation of the alpine zones

•    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.

Hands-on practice with the Core 4: Shelter, Fire, Water, Food

 •    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.

Boost your wilderness confidence, self-reliance, and mental resilience

•    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