Develop essential backcountry skills to handle any situation!

🌲 Ready to master life-saving wilderness skills? This comprehensive course will show you how to prepare before venturing into remote areas, prevent mishaps, and confidently tackle any challenge nature throws your way so that you return home safely.

🎒 Select gear and equip yourself properly before your adventure begins.
🚑 Avoid common mistakes and injuries that can lead to disaster.
🏕️ Develop fundamental survival skills to enhance self-reliance.
🚨 Know what to do in emergency situations to ensure your own survival and those with you.

Course Topics:

This course covers the following subjects: 

🌿 Basic Wilderness Survival:

📖 History & Causes – Recognize what leads to survival situations and primitive vs. modern methods.
🎒 Essential Gear – Select appropriate bedding, backpacks, tools, and other essential equipment.
🧥 Proper Clothing – Know the secrets for choosing appropriate garments and outerwear for protection from the elements.
🚙 Vehicle Preparedness – Understand what is required to ready your vehicle for backcountry travel.
🧭 Navigation & Orienteering – Learn how to read topo maps, use a compass, and find your way if you get lost.

🦅 Intermediate Wilderness Survival:

🌡 Keeping Warm – Learn the science of heat retention and maintaining body temperature in cold environments.
🔥 Making Fire – Discover the tools and techniques needed to start and maintain fire in a variety of conditions.
💦 Staying Hydrated – Understand the factors and strategies for minimizing water loss in the wilderness.
🥵 Preventing Heat Illness – Recognize the causes and effects of overheating and how to avoid elevated body temperatures.
💧 Procuring Water – Know the equipment and methods for obtaining and purifying water in the wild.

🌲 Advanced Wilderness Survival:

🔪 Using a Knife – Understand the criteria for selecting a knife and how to use one safely with a baton for survival tasks.
🪢 Making Cordage – Discover the art of bindcraft and how to weave rope from a variety of plant fibers.
📖 Tying Knots – Learn how to tie the most useful knots and how they are used in the wilderness.
🏕 Building Shelters – Discern how to choose an appropriate site and construct a life-saving structure from natural materials.
🚨 Signaling for Rescue – Know the tools and methods for alerting rescuers to maximize your chances of being found.

What You’ll Learn:

At the end of this course, you’ll be equipped with skills that not only will keep you safe when you venture into the backcountry, but also transform your outdoor experiences by enabling you to:

🔥 Start life-saving fires that will keep you warm and dry throughout the night in a survival situation.

🏕 Build shelters that protect you from the elements and potentially dangerous animals using natural materials.

💧 Find and purify water using a variety of methods, making it safe to drink and preventing dehydration.

🧵 Make cordage for emergency ropes by weaving natural fibers from common plants.

🗺 Navigate without GPS using maps, compasses, and nature’s signs to find your way confidently.

🎒 Select proper gear before you travel so you avoid common mistakes leading to survival situations.

🧥 Choose the right clothing to maintain body temperature and avoid exposure-related illnesses in extreme environments.

🚙 Prepare your vehicle for remote travel, ensuring you have the necessary tools and know what to do if stranded.

🌡 Keep warm in cold conditions by mastering heat retention techniques and layering strategies.

🥵 Prevent heat illness by recognizing early warning signs and implementing hydration and cooling techniques.

🔪 Master knife handling skills to efficiently cut, carve, and shape implements for survival tasks.

🪢 Tie essential knots for securing shelters, gear, making repairs, and other emergency uses.

🆘 Signal for help using fire, mirrors, sound, and other techniques to increase your chances of being rescued.

🌍 Feel like you are a part of nature rather than an outsider who doesn't belong.

What’s Included:

📕 Fifteen Modules covering all major aspects of wilderness survival, from essential preparation to required actions in real-world emergency scenarios.

📋 Detailed Lesson Outlines with specific objectives and recommended tasks to help you stay on target, keep you organized, and retain what you learn.

🎥 24+ hours of video lessons from an expert instructor that include actual demonstrations of how to carry out essential survival tasks.

✅ Interactive Quizzes that test your knowledge of topics covered in the video lessons with questions that not only validate your grasp of broad concepts, but also reinforce important details.

📄 Supplemental Guides that provide in-depth explanations and additional insight into core survival principles and strategies, so that you understand their importance and know how to apply them in a given situation.

✋ Hands-on Exercises that walk you through all the required steps to practice essential skills and develop proficiency before you head into the wilderness.

🌎 Access to the Naturalist Speak community, where you can share survival tips and pose questions to others.

🌟 Wilderness Survival Testimonials

Keith Farrar ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"This is the best online survival course out there. I have been teaching wilderness survival at the School of Self Reliance for over fifteen years, and this is the most comprehensive program available. It will allow any student to become confident in these essential skills."

Robert Harger ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"As an outdoor specialist with significant backcountry experience, I can attest that this online course is the most practical and comprehensive survival course on the market. The instructor is a survival expert who spent years in the wilderness honing his skills and researching all the scientific aspects of survival. He has distilled all that knowledge into the essentials you need to know to be prepared to handle almost any emergency."

Ryan Cunningham ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"When I started the course, I thought it would just be a review of what I already knew, but he delved into the physiology of survival. Hence, I learned things that will forever change how I prepare and think when going into remote country. Whether you are a day hiker, backpacker, field scientist, backcountry ranger, or other type of adventurer, I highly recommend this course as the information contained in it could end up saving your life and anyone with you.”

Jen Murro ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"As a Native American (Chiricahua Apache), naturalist, and longtime outdoor educator, I deeply appreciated this course’s perspective. It recognized that these skills aren’t just about survival—they are every day skills because our ancestors weren’t merely surviving, they were LIVING!"

Scott O'Neal  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"I thought the material was fantastic and I discovered so much that I can take with me both in my professional and personal endeavors. The instant immersion is how I was able to pick it up so quickly. and what I learned has benefitted both myself as well as the greater body of outdoor knowledge. Thank you for your time and effort you have put into sharing your this information."

Don’t Miss This Chance!

🌲 Imagine being in the middle of the wilderness with the confidence that no matter what mishaps you might encounter, you have the ability to get home safely. With this course, that knowledge is just a few lessons away!

Enroll now and start developing the skills to survive in any environment!

🛡️ Our Ironclad Guarantee: 100% Satisfaction or Your Money Back!

We’re committed to delivering an exceptional learning experience, and as a small, family-owned business, your satisfaction is our top priority. If, for any reason, you’re not completely satisfied with the course, simply request a refund within 14 days of the course start date—no questions asked, no hassle.

We’re confident you’ll love the journey, but if it’s not the right fit, we’ve got you covered! 😊