Wilderness Survival Courses

Alderleaf offers a variety of wilderness survival courses. Learn outdoor survival skills, bushcraft, primitive skills, and self sufficiency. Choose from weekend classes, week-long courses, nine-month training programs, or an online course.

Alderleaf teaches both primitive and modern wilderness survival skills that empower people to be prepared and at home in the outdoors.

Courses include:

Essential Wilderness Survival Skills (Online Course) - Learn the core skills of survival in a format that allows you to participate at your own pace.

Weekend Wilderness Survival Course - Learn the most important skills for survival: shelter, water, fire and food. Gain practical, hands-on experience.

Half-Day Survival Fire Making Skills Class - Learn how to create fire with natural materials. Gain experience with bow drill, hand drill, and flint & steel.

3-Day Bow Making Course - Learn how to make a wooden long bow. Build and take home a hickory bow and the skills to make more.

3-Day Leatherworking Course - Make your own moccasin-style leather shoes, felted boots, or a leather backpack in this leatherworking skills class.

3-Day Backpack Basket Making Course - Learn how to weave a wooden backpack basket (also known as a pack-basket) fitted with leather straps and a wooden lid!

One-Day Survival Knots, Cordage, & Lashings Class - Learn how to make cordage and tie the most useful knots for survival skills projects.

Weekend Stone Tools & Flintknapping Course - Learn how to make spear points, arrow points, knives, and a variety of other stone tools.

5-Day Wilderness Survival Skills Intensive - Spend five full days immersed in studying outdoor survival skills. Detailed instruction and hands-on practice.

3-Day Knife Making Course - Learn how to make a knife; including stock removal, heat‐treating, wooden handle & leather sheath making, and sharpening.

Weekend Blacksmithing Course - Forge your own knife while learning steel selection, basic metallurgy, profiling, heat‐treating, grinding, and more.

Nine-Month Alderleaf Wilderness Certification Program - Our most comprehensive course. Training in survival, nature skills, and sustainability.

Nine-Month Advanced Wilderness Skills Program - A second year of advanced nature and survival training for Certification Program graduates.

Weekend Primitive Hunting Tools Course - Learn how to build an atlatl, bola, rabbit stick, sling, and quickie survival bow at this course.

Weekend Survival & Tracking for Hunters - Learn wilderness survival and wildlife tracking skills specifically applicable to hunting.

Weekend Overnight Survival Course - Learn more survival skills and put them to practice in a guided overnight survival experience.

3-Day Brain Tanning Course - Learn how to turn animal hides into beautiful brain-tanned leather for clothing and survival projects.

Weekend Axe Forging Course - Learn basic metallurgy, forging, heat treating, and hafting while you produce a backcountry axe to take home.

Weekend Arrow Making Course - Learn about forging arrowheads, shafting materials, hafting, cutting self nocks, fletching, and more.

Survival Skills Webclass (Online Webinar) - Discover four secrets to surviving in the outdoors without gear or supplies.

Online registration is available for many of our wilderness courses.
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