First Circle Wilderness Survival 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.

Lifesong Wilderness Adventures offers the best hands-on, personalized attention while developing your physical and mental ability for wilderness survival and natural disasters.  Below is a quick view of the practical skills and applications for outdoor survival training.

Program ♦ First Circle Survival Training and Bushcraft Skills

Muscle up you human scarecrow ~ Kyle A.

  • 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.

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 I attended the First Circle Camp and was very impressed with the experience.  Mark and Celeste did an outstanding job.  Being 56 years old and a retired police officer, I do not get impressed easily.  There is so much we do not understand about nature and ourselves and Mark and Celeste truly opened my eyes and my heart. ~ Bob M.

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.

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Take advantage of the 5% discount by registering 90 days in advance for 2012!   (Registration now available by installment plan, please contact us.)

First Circle 2012 Dates – California
April 15 – 20, May 13 – 18, June 03 – 08, August 5 – 10

First Circle Survival Camp

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More ♦ Camp Info

  • Eligible Students: Adults minimum age 18 – enrollment maximum 12
  • Requirements: none   First and Second Circle may be completed consecutively.
  • 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 the northern California mountains at over 6000 feet
  • 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 $80; 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)

Manish B., Dirk H. Raven R., Kyle A., Michael H. - Thanks for a great week!