SURVIVAL, EXPEDITION and NAVIGATION SKILLS COURSES

Whilst we believe in our mantra of "Adventure is a Mindset" there is no arguing it's also dictated by your skillset. Expand your skillset and you expand your scope and potential for future expedition and adventures.

We run courses in survival and expedition skills giving you skills to plan and prepare for your own adventures. Our courses cover a wide range of subjects from basic survival skills such as fire and shelter to  advanced camp craft, wilderness first aid, and preparing for longer more remote expeditions.

Basic Survival and Expedition Skills Course

Midlands

£175 Per Person

2 Day Course

The aim of this course is to teach you the skills needed to survive and thrive in the wilderness and enable you to have your own adventures and expeditions in the outdoors. You will learn the skills and techniques to light fires and use them to cook, build shelter, filter and purify water, use knives safely and efficiently , signal for help and some input on equipment selection and planning.

This weekend course is more of a fun, safe learning experience than an endurance event. This course will be run at a beautiful private woodland close to Market Harborough. Only 10 minutes from the A14 and in between the junctions for the A1, M1 andM6. We are a family run business and encourage young people to get outdoors more, as such children under 14 with a paying adult are free on our woodland courses.

Intermediate Survival and Expedition Skills Course

Midlands

£175 Per Person

2 Day Course

Following on from our basic course we look at more advanced skills such as:
 
• Wet weather fire lighting skills,
• Different Fire Lays and using a fire to cook
• Improvised shelter,
• Water acquisition,
• Safe use of an axe,
• Basic theory of trapping,
• Small game prep and more

To attend this course you should have attended our Basic course or at least have a basic level of outdoor knowledge – for example how to use a knife safely, set a tarp shelter, administer yourself in the field etc, if in doubt please get in touch.
 
Our weekend courses are more of a fun, safe learning experience than an endurance event.
This Survival and Skills course will be run from a beautiful private woodland close to Market Harborough. Only 10 minutes from the A14 and in between the junctions for the A1, M1 andM6.
 
We are a family business that believes in seeing more young people enjoy the outdoors and children under 14 accompanied by a paying adult are free.

Advanced Survival and Expedition Skills Course

Cairngorms National Park

£550 Per Person

5 Day Course

Based from a remote lodge at the foot of the Cairngorms, our advanced will be a pass or fail course with genuine long term benefits to those who pass.

 

Course will cover:

Advanced tools

Advanced fire craft

Water acquisition

Land navigation in a mountain and woodland environment

River crossings

Basic rope work

Foraging

Small game prep

 

All the above plus an opportunity to test your skills in the UK’s only designated wilderness during our 48hr test phase.

 

£550 per person, including accommodation, instruction and all meals besides the end of course night out.

 

Please contact us for booking details. You will have to have completed our Basic and Intermediate courses or have shown suitable competency before being able to attend this course.

Wilderness First Aid Course

Midlands

£180

NO CURRENT DATES

2 Day Course

Join us under the chute in our stunning woodland setting for a 2 day wilderness first aid course.

 

Cost includes main meal cooked over the fire and cooked breakfast, as much tea, coffee and hot chocolate as you can drink and of course a nationally recognised and ofqual regulated outdoor first aid qualification.

 

Ideal for use alongside NGB’s such as RCI, ML, MCI etc.

Big Game Prep Weekend

Midlands

£200

2 Day Course

Spend a weekend with a gamekeeper at our woodland site, learning how to prep a deer from start to finish, including how to build a smoker so that the meat can be smoked to store and how to cook the venison.

 

Course will cover:

Skinning

Processing

Butchering

Smoking

 

Price including game, instruction and catered dinner and breakfast.

Navigation Skills Course

Basic and Advanced

Various Locations

£65 (1 Day)
£120 (2 Days)

2 Day Course

NO DATES AVAILABLE

A 2 day course in navigation using map and compass.

 

Day 1: Navigation for total beginnners

Day 2: Intermediate/Advanced navigation

 

We keep instructor to client ratio small to ensure effective learning, maximum of 4 clients per instructor.

 

We require a minimum of 4 clients spread over the two days for a course to run.