Survival Training Schools
Survival training skills offer short courses in outdoor survival, including safety techniques, medical training, wilderness survival training and primitive living skills. Most schools deliver courses over a period of three days to one month, depending on the intensity and content of the course. Most schools are located in remote locations across the United States to effectively deliver hands-on survival training using realistic environmental scenarios.
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Boulder Outdoor Survival School, Utah
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The Boulder Outdoor Survival School (BOSS) offers survival training courses in Southern Utah, ranging from three days to 28 days. Field courses, the signature course at BOSS, include hiking across the Utah landscape with minimal survival equipment and learning hands-on survival skills. Skilled courses are also provided that mainly teach "primitive living" methods, such as friction fire lighting, gathering supplies in the wilderness and preparing meals from primitive sources. Explorer courses (normally consisting of hiking and rock climbing) and training courses (medical certification for outdoor guides) are also available, as well as customized courses incorporating features of all programs. The school has been in operation since 1968.
Wilderness Survival Institute, Colorado
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The Wilderness Survival Institute focuses on teaching safety survival education. Courses include the Summer Safety and Survival program, which teaches learners to prepare for traveling safely in the summer and surviving dangerous situations (such as becoming lost in extreme temperatures), the Winter Safety and Survival course (including surviving extreme colds, survival psychology and potential dangers in winter travel), and an Outdoor Safety and Survival Course, typically taught to scout groups or young students. The Wilderness Survival Institute also offers classroom-based learning that teaches, amongst other topics, common-sense survival techniques, survival psychology, first aid and surviving disaster scenarios.
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Ancient Pathways Outdoor Survival School, Arizona
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Ancient Pathways has been delivering primitive survival skills, wilderness survival and bush-craft since 1989. Course are delivered in various sessions and are broad, ranging from short courses in knife-only survival courses, winter survival and ecology courses, a "complete survival" course, and desert survival courses. Most programs last on average three to four days and can be customized to incorporate aspects of other courses.
OutdoorSafe, Colorado
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OutdoorSafe offers training, seminars, courses and survival products, focusing on both psychological and physiological aspects of survival training. Courses are scheduled throughout the year and are sometimes provided in conjunction with United States military services. Other organizations such as Dallas Safari Club National Convention and the Wild Sheep Foundation are also involved in delivering survival training programs and seminars. The school has received two awards, the "Wilderness Medical Society Educator Award, 2007" and the "Wilderness Medical Society, Warren D. Bowman MD Award, 2004"
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