SURVIVAL, EXPEDITION and NAVIGATION SKILLS COURSES

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.
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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.

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.

Have you completed our intermediate course or have a similar skill set and want to do something a little different?

Have an interest in jungle expeditions/travel and the skills and equipment required?

Why not join us 17/18th August for a weekend at our woodland learning the skills needed to operate in one of the harshest environments on the planet .

We will be looking at :

• Basecamp site selection

•Movement and navigation (Micro nav for jungle is also same skills used in tight woodland)

• River crossing drills

•Hammock selection and set up

•Equipment selection and set up

•Parang vs Kukri vs Machete and how to use these tools

•Water purification

•Casualty evacuation

•Personal admin.

•Brief on what to expect from an MDA Jungle trip.

Plus the usual evening around a fire with good food, stories and a few laughs .

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.

You will be taught tracking skills from a renowned Italian tracking instructor, across this 2 and a half day course.

Day 1:
From 9:00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
Night Tracking: 5:00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.

Day 2:
From 9:00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
Night Tracking: 5:00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.

Day 3:
From 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Day one:
Meet your instructor
Presentation of the itinerary of the course and goals
History of Man Tracking
Modern Applications
Difference between “Track Traps” and “Hostile Terrains”
Analysis on human feet
Difference between footwear
Focus on the most common trainers and Hiking Boots in U.K.
Explanation of the Tracking Kit and Tracking Stick
Analysis on gait (features and disabilities), pitch angle
How to measure tracks
Informations we can collect from a single track and from a pair of tracks
Gaining intelligence from a track/from tracks in Track Traps area
Tracking Fundamentals
Senses involved in Mantracking
How to develop your smelling, hearing and sight
How to take advantage of the sun ligh

Day two:
The mindset of a Tracker
Information we can collect from a single track and from a pair of tracks
Gaining intelligence from a track/from tracks in Track Traps area
Elements of visual Perceptions 
How to approach a trackline on a track trap
How to approach tracks on a forest
How to approach tracks in contaminated areas

Night tracking:
How to observe tracks in the dark
How to employ a flashlight in poor conditions of light

Day 3:
Cases solved with the application of Tracking skills
Long Trackline exercises
How to work in a 2 people (and more) team
Debrief
Delivery of Certificates

Cetification:
Hull’s Tracking School’s Certificate of attendance
Hull’s Tracking School’s Certificate as “Novice Tracker”
Handouts and essays
My manual in pdf “The importance of being a Tracker” for free

Equipment:
Just your regular outdoor gear. If you already have your Tracking Kit, please bring it with you

Game prep, butchery and field cooking.

Our hunter/chef Gavin will take you from skinning a deer to butchering – taking you through the various uses for the cuts of meat. He will then show you how to cook in the field, creating some delicious venison recipes – all with your help!

Price includes game, instruction and breakfast. Dinner – well, that’ll be your deer!