On the Edge: Basecamp Survival
This weeklong course is designed to give participants basic wilderness survival training, as well as longer-term primitive living skills. This is a skills-heavy course that is based out of a central location; we will take day trips to gather food and materials. As this is a survival trip there will likely be times of feast, and also famine. Expect to have your edges pushed and your survival skill tool basket filled!
In the beautiful wilds of Eastern Washington we will start with making shelters from materials close at hand. From there our class will dive into wilderness survival. How do you survive with limited resources? How does survival change when you are with a group versus when you are alone?
We will delve into survival kits and how you can use a few simple items in an emergency situation. Throughout the week we will experience a blend of modern and ancient techniques for not merely surviving, but thriving in the wilderness.
Register for On the Edge: Basecamp Survival
| Register Now | Ages Adult $925 Food and camping (primitive) included. August 12-18, 2012, 3pm Sunday - 3pm Saturday Location: East slope of Washington Cascade Mountains. Airport shuttle available. |
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This hands-on class will impart an array of survival skills, including the basics of wilderness survival:
- Fire
- Shelter
- Food
- Water
- Stone knives
- Cordage
- Primitive containers
- Wild edible and medicinal plants
Explore additional advanced skills, with options such as:
- Flintknapping
- Hide-tanning
- Quickie bows and arrows
- Traps
- Baskets
- Animal processing
Meet Your Instructors
Dan
Corcoran is the Adult Programs Director and Coordinator of the Kamana Naturalist Training
Program, and an instructor with our Youth Programs and Adult Programs
as well. After receiving his B.S. in Biology from Indiana University in
June of 2000, Dan moved to the Pacific Northwest to pursue his love of
nature with Wilderness Awareness School. He graduated from the Anake Outdoor
School in 2003. As a Kamana graduate, he aspires to inspire more people
to finish the program. He continues to push his edges with attempts to
touch a deer, flintknap a clovis point, and hear a cougar bird-alarm sequence.
Dan is also a Wilderness First Responder.
Lindsay
Huettman loves being a part of the Wilderness Awareness
School team in her roles as Outreach Coordinator and Anake Outdoor
School Instructor. Her primary passion is connecting humans to wilderness
through the use of native plants. This inspired her to complete a degree
at WWU in Ethnobotany
Stewardship Education. This can include anything from eating Hemlock
cambium and discussing its nutritional benefits, to making baskets out
of Cedar roots and dying them with lichens! Other passions include leading
wilderness survival, whitewater rafting and kayaking expeditions; writing
and playing music, and creating dynamic environmental education curriculum
for K-12. She has a background in organic farming, landscaping, horse
packing & training, homeschool support and is an avid plant dork
when it comes to biochemistry. Most of all she loves to sit in the woods
and watch the leaves uncurl each spring.
