Survival Skills Training Course - Kentucky

Hosted by Red River Outpost

August 15-18, 2024

December 13-15, 2024

April 18-20, 2025

www.redriveroutpost.org

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Survival Training Curriculum

Weekend 1: Turning Non-Campers into Backpackers

• Fire building with a match, types of fires, importance of fire
• Backpackers’ water containers, purification, filtration, and storage
• Equipment: backpacks, ropes, lights, mirrors, ponchos
• Food (backpacking), types of camping stoves, the importance of diet
• Backpackers’ tents, choosing a campsite
• Knives, axes, sharpeners, saws, knife safety
• Backpackers’ clothing including boots, undergarments, rainwear, and hats
• Backpackers’ hygiene, shovels

Weekend 2: Basic Survival Skills

• Survivors' mindset + spiritual mindset
• Food (edible plants), foraging
• Wild animal safety
• Fire building using flint and steel, char, and fire starters
• Finding, collecting, purifying, and storing water using purchased equipment  (pumps and straws)
• Knots and lashings
• Building shelters using a tarp/poncho
• Creating your own personal survival kits, bug-out bags

Weekend 3: Intermediate Survival Skills

• Charcoal production
• Char production
• Cooking over a live fire
• Water collection and storage without the use of purchased equipment
• Emergency shelters
• Dakota fires
• Navigation using: compasses, GPS, maps
• Survival hacks

Additional Trainer: Advanced Survival Skills

• Tracking & Evasion
• Friction fire building
• First Aid & Health Maintenance
• Navigation without compasses, GPS, or maps
• Foraging