First Circle Outdoor Wilderness Survival Training Camp – CA
First Circle wilderness survival and bushcraft skills is an exclusive outdoor California training camp featuring, basic survival skills using primitive and modern technology, wilderness navigation and orientation, fundamentals of tracking and nature awareness, survival attitude, and provides outstanding outdoor adventure. First Circle offers the best hands-on, personalized attention while developing your physical and mental abilities. Whether you are a first time camper or an experienced outdoorsman, Lifesong survival training will take you where you want to go.
Dates - May 05 – 10, 2013 – August 04 – 09, 2013 – May 11-16, 2014
- Location in northern California near MT Shasta
Program ♦ First Circle Outdoor Survival Training and Bushcraft Skills
- survival shelters – modern and primitive
- clothing – layering and natural insulation
- water – locate, solar – treatment and filtering systems
- fire – modern and primitive friction fire
- wild food – plant, insect, and animal
- wild plant – medicinal and utilitarian
- survival knife – style, sharpening, use and safety
- primitive tools – throwing stick, cordage
- tracking and nature observation
- nature awareness – wide angle and night vision, deer ears and sign
- the hunt – controlled stillness and movement, stalking and camouflage
- trapping methods – snares, deadfalls
- survival attitude – panic control, fight, flight, or freeze
- staying found – practical applications from search and rescue
These valuable skills, applications and knowledge imparted to you by Lifesong’s experienced instructors will empower your life and make you as comfortable in the outdoors as you are in your home.
Just one week spent immersed in nature will develop your awareness, self-reliance, confidence, deep connection, and respect for nature and the outdoors. It’s the best education you can give yourself.
More ♦ Camp Info
- Eligible Students: adults minimum age 18 – enrollment maximum 12
- Requirements: none
- Duration: 6 days 5 nights
- Schedule: begins on a Sunday 4:00 pm – ends on a Friday at 12:00 pm (noon)
- Location: 4 hours north of San Francisco Bay area, in northern California near Mt Shasta
- Accommodations: primitive outdoor camping
- Meals: included
- Equipment: a registration packet will be supplied after enrollment; tent and sleeping pad rentals are available for $45
- Transport: shuttle service from Medford, Oregon airport $100; Dunsmuir, CA train station $55; and, Weed, CA Greyhound bus station free
- Instructors and Staff: Mark Wienert Jr. owner – founder and head instructor; Staff – Lifesong volunteer students and possible guest instructor(s)
First Circle Survival Training Basics - duration 6 days
