Weekend Survival School – California
Lifesong’s California Survival School is the perfect way to begin your training in basic, practical, and useful survival skills in the span of a weekend. Wienert’s survival school provides an outstanding curriculum encompassing primitive skill courses, modern technology, fundamentals of nature awareness, and survival attitude.
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Dates – Wilderness Survival School California
April 26-28, 2013 & May 31-June 02, & June 21-23, & September 13-15, 2013
$375.00 per person
- Location: northern CA, near MT Shasta
Or Register by check.
A weekend getaway! Adventure, camping, recommended for both singles and couples!
Wienert’s hands-on, personalized attention provides the personally empowering experience you expect from a qualified survival school.
If you hike, backpack, mountain bike, fish, hunt, or just enjoy spending time in the outdoors, Wienert’s survival training courses should be number one on your bucket list.
Core concepts and skills follow:
Course ♦ Wilderness ♦ Survival School
- psychology of survival – panic, stress, fear
- staying found concepts
- survival pack – bug out bag
- intro – backpacking – gear concepts
- intro – emergency survival shelters
- water purification
- emergency survival fire
- wild plants and uses
- camp knives – safety
- intro – mapping – compass
- human and wildlife interaction
- leave no trace concepts
Wienert’s Survival School is essential training for you – moms, dads, students, teachers, and professionals singularly or in groups (highly recommended for couples) looking for a general overview and knowledge of wilderness survival skills to compliment your life every day. Survival training and bushcraft skills dramatically enhance your outdoor experience.
“Mark strikes the perfect balance between teaching you from his own vast experience and giving participants the opportunity to learn from their own experiences at camp. I look forward to learning a lot more from him.”
More ♦ Survival School Info
- Eligible Students: adults (and teens ages 16-17 may attend with parental consent.)
- Class Limit: 12 Students
- Requirements: none
- Duration: 3 days – 2 nights
- Schedule: begins on a Friday 4:00 pm – ends on a Sunday at 12:00 pm (noon)
- Location: northern CA, near MT Shasta
- Accommodations: on-site tenting
- Meals not provided: After receiving your registration payment we will email food suggestions for breakfast lunch and dinner items.
- Leave No Trace camping: pack it in and pack it out
- Equipment: a registration packet will be supplied after enrollment; tent and sleeping pad rentals are available for $45
- Camp gear list
- Transport: Shuttle service from Medford, Oregon airport (MFR) $100; Dunsmuir, CA train station $55; and, Weed, CA Greyhound bus station free.
- School Instructors and Staff: Mark Wienert Jr. Owner – founder and head instructor; Staff – Lifesong volunteers.
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