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Learning how to build a fire in the Kids' Course

Survival and outdoor skills course for kids

Cost: $125  (includes 6 meals, drinks, snacks and ice cream social)

Kids Course is only available to a Registered Parent or Guardian.

Occurring simultaneously to the main course, there will be a special itinerary for children. 

Our talented Faculty will take turns teaching sessions. The kids will learn many survival and outdoor skills.

• Fire-starting techniques
  
• Ropes and knots
  
• Climbing basics, including some rappelling
  
• Much, much more!
  

The kids survival/outdoor skills course is open to all kids older than 7 yrs old. It is geared towards children age 8-16. We found that older teens prefer to sit in on the main course.

The following schedule is subject to change.

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Friday

1800 - 2000     Make your own Backpacking Stove 

2000                Outdoor Movie

Saturday

0900 - 1200     Ropes, Knots & Climbing

                        (Beginner and Advanced groups)

1200 - 1330     Lunch

1330 - 1430     Wilderness Mass Casualty Drill

1430 - 1530     Traps & Snares

1530 - 1630     Signaling: Helping Rescuers Find You

1630 - 1800     Dinner

1800 - 1900     Survival Kits

1900                Ice Cream Social

2000                Outdoor Movie

Sunday

0830 - 1130     Low Ropes Course

1130 - 1300     Lunch

1300 - 1500     Wounds in the Wilderness

1500 - 1600     Tinder & Fire Building

Warning: This is an archived page from 2016.  We left this info for reference purposes.

10th Annual Wilderness Medicine

& Survival Skills Conference

September 16-18, 2016