Wilderness Survival Training:
Courses, Classes, and Presentations

Alderleaf Wilderness College offers a variety of wilderness survival training programs, including courses, classes, and presentations. As a wilderness survival school and more, Alderleaf teaches both primitive and modern wilderness skills. Our approach empowers people to be prepared and at home in the outdoors. Examples of our current and past wilderness survival courses are listed below:

Wilderness Survival Training Opportunities at Alderleaf:

The Alderleaf Wilderness Certification Program
Our most comprehensive survival training program, covering all aspects of wilderness skills, from herbal medicine to wildlife tracking and outdoor leadership. Runs Sept-May.

Essential Wilderness Survival Skills (online course)
Learn the core skills of survival in a format that allows you to participate at home and at your own pace.

Wilderness Survival Weekend Course
Gain hands-on experience learning the primary skills of wilderness survival in a fun and informative weekend class.

Wilderness Skills Intensive
Spend five full days immersed in studying outdoor survival skills! Detailed instruction and ample hands-on experience with shelters, primitive fire, wild edibles, and much more.

Wooden Bow Making Course
Learn how to make a wooden long bow. Build and take home a bow, an arrow, and the skills to make more!

Survival Fire Making Skills Class
Learn how to create fire with natural materials! Gain hands-on experience with bow drill, hand drill, and flint & steel. Build a bow drill kit to take home.

Wilderness Survival Series
Participate in six exciting back-to-back weekends of in-depth wilderness survival skills training.

Survival Knots, Cordage & Lashings Class
Learn cordage and the most useful knots and lashings for wilderness survival shelters, snares, baskets, nets, repairs, and rescues.

Survival Trapping & Tracking Course
Learn primitive trapping and snaring techniques for emergency survival situations including safety, ethics, placement, and construction.

Wilderness Orienteering & Navigation Class
Learn how to use map & compass, as well as aid-less navigation techniques, for traveling on and off-trail in the outdoors.

Survival Nature Awareness Class
Learn nature awareness skills for survival, including bird language, wildlife tracking, stealth, observation, and camouflage.

Survival Stone Tools Class
Learn how to turn common river stones into a variety of survival tools from knives to arrowheads and axes.

Custom Survival Courses
Alderleaf is able to provide customized wilderness survival training for your group, company, or project. 

Evening Presentations on Wilderness Survival
Learn key survival concepts in this two-hour powerpoint slideshow presentation on wilderness survival. Offered at various locations in the Northwest. Contact us for more information.

Looking for options in other parts of the world? - Check out Hollowtop's List of Wilderness Survival Training Schools of North America and beyond.

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