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 25/26th July 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 .

Includes certified course, camping and dinner and breakfast cooked over the fire .

“Identify, decipher and follow human tracks on any terrain”

Mantracking is the art and science of reading, interpreting, and following human footprints and ground disturbances to determine movement, direction, behavior, and intent. Used in search and rescue operations, law enforcement, military environments, and wilderness survival, mantracking combines observation, analytical thinking, and field discipline.
This course provides a structured and practical approach to understanding human tracks and developing the ability to pursue and maintain a trail across different terrains and environmental conditions.
Participants will learn not only how to identify footprints, but how to interpret subtle ground signs, movement patterns, and behavioral indicators to reconstruct a subject’s path with accuracy and confidence.

Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to identify and analyze human footprints and ground disturbances, to stimate direction, speed, and movement patterns, to recognize signs of fatigue, injury, or carried loads, to maintain and reacquire a lost trail, to track across multiple terrains (sand, mud, grass, forest, gravel, rocks, moss and lichens..), to apply pursuit strategies safely and effectively
and to work systematically in solo or team tracking operations.

Who should attend

Search and Rescue personnel
Law enforcement officers
Military operators
Outdoor instructors and survival specialists
Wilderness enthusiasts

Course content:

1. Foundations of Human Track Identification
Anatomy of a footprint
Shoe sole patterns and wear analysis
Depth, pressure, and weight distribution
Stride length and gait interpretation

2. Reading Movement Patterns
Walking vs running indicators vs stopping indicators
Changes in direction
Signs of hesitation or stress
Behavioral clues from track spacing

3. Terrain and Environmental Factors
Sand and soft soil tracking
Forest floor and vegetation disturbance
Mud and wet ground interpretation
Snow, frost and temperature effects on tracks
Weather impact on track preservation

4. Advanced Tracking Techniques
Aging tracks
Distinguishing overlapping footprints
Recovering a lost trail
Silent pursuit techniques
Tactical positioning during tracking

5. Practical Field Exercises
Controlled tracking scenarios
Real-time pursuit simulations
Team tracking drills
Stress-based tracking exercises

Skills Developed

Acute observational awareness
Analytical reasoning
Patience and concentration
Environmental reading
Tactical movement discipline
Team coordination in pursuit scenarios
Training Methodology

The course combines visual analysis of real case examples, outdoor practical exercises, scenario-based tracking simulations, structured debrief and performance review

Why attend?

In critical situations, the ability to read and follow human tracks can make the difference between success and failure in locating a missing person or identifying a suspect’s route of escape.
Mantracking is not guesswork — it is a disciplined skill built on observation, experience, and structured methodology. This course provides the knowledge and practical tools necessary to operate confidently and effectively in real-world tracking environments.

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.

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!

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.