Colorado Wilderness Survival Training
Having an understanding of the basic skills and techniques for wilderness survival are crucial for emergency situations in the Colorado wilderness that you may find yourself in. There are several options for courses and programs for training survival skills in Colorado, some of which are offered through universities. Wilderness survival training programs commonly study and apply concepts and theory for wilderness survival, develop essential survival skills and review the basic needs and an appropriate mind-set.
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Programs and Schools
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Wilderness survival courses are located in several different areas of Colorado and offered through both university classes and schools specifically designed for wilderness survival.
Some of the more well-known programs include the Wilderness Survival Institute based in Loveland, the Boulder Outdoor Survival School (BOSS) in Boulder and the Colorado Outdoor Adventure and Leadership School based in Colorado Springs, which offers courses on Wilderness First Aid. The University of Colorado at Boulder also offers Wilderness First Aid courses.
Course Work
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Common courses and topics covered in survival schools help develop an awareness of potential hazards and medical issues that can arise while in the wilderness, the psychology of survival, backcountry hygiene, weather and animal hazards, first-aid issues and the development of survival skills.
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State of Mind and Basic Needs
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According to Wilderness-Survival-Skills.com, having the proper state of mind is crucial to any wilderness emergency situation. Having a positive mental attitude and an earnest will to survive is commonly the most essential element of individuals who have lived to tell their survival tales.
You will need this mental attitude to best provide yourself with the four basic survival needs, which are food, warmth, sleep and water. In a survival training course, you will learn how to prioritize these needs based on the situation you are in.
Skills
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There are eight basic skills and techniques that you should learn to best prepare yourself for outings into the wilderness. Sometimes a variety of courses are necessary in order to be exposed to all these skills and master their application.
These skills include the ability to find and filter water; signaling for help; making a fire; navigation; building a shelter; finding food; basic wilderness first aid; and predicting the weather, all of which should be possible with minimal equipment.
Practice
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Although taking wilderness survival courses will help prepare you in emergency situations, it is important to maintain your skills with frequent practice and review. Like any subject, a lack of review can result in forgetting subject matter and an inability to apply certain information; with wilderness survival this becomes far more drastic as your life might at some point depend on your skills.
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An overlooked tip for wilderness survival in nanny state government telling you it's illegal to hunt and fish and gather wild plants. Avoid them at all costs, more so than avoiding a black bear. Bear is good food, BLM agents don't even taste like chicken. The nanny state government wants you to drink chemical ladden energy drinks, but you have no water rights. You are going to have a difficult time surviving without water. I would avoid Colorado at all costs and try a state with a lot less government intrusion.
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An overlooked tip for wilderness survival in nanny state government telling you it's illegal to hunt and fish and gather wild plants.
