Survival and navigation classes in SoCal & Nocal

[spectr17]

Anybody up to having some weekends in the winter and summer where we go into a wilderness and practice navigation and survival techniques? We could do a SoCal version and a Nocal Version. I can help run the SoCal one but would need someone to spearhead the NoCal one. I'd like to do a class more geared to hunters than the yuppified ones they teach at Sport's Chalet and Sierra Club if they still do it there.

We would start out with an easy hike into to a campsite and learn ropes and knots, first aid, water filtration, wilderness hygiene, shelter building, GPS, map & compass, plant identification, etc. After a few of those we could move on to more advanced classes about crampons, snowshoeing, roping up and rappelling etc., with a longer hike in.

Most of survival is being comfortable until you're found. Once you learn the right things to do it's like a camp out but if you've never been in a lost situation it can get pretty scary and uncomfortable. I still lug around my Boy Scout Handbook, much of it will keep you alive anywhere in the world with just a knife and a spoon.

 

[outdoorsman35]

i would really like to do this in san diego. i would like to include tracking techniques, explantion of what tracks are what animals and where they are going and how fast, how big they are, male of female. also include all of the edible plants in the San Diego mountains in case you forgot your lunch or got lost. also include what animals eat and there patterns daily and during the seasons. maybe even game processing, butchering a harvested animal. maybe topo review and how to pick out a likely area for a hunt. also, foot and horse packing in and out, gear review and checklists with associated weights. i could probably think of more but i would love to do this especially for new hunters or a group of kids.

thanks.

 

[Sasquatch619]

I would attend the So cal session.