Survival 1: Foundations of Survival 5 days Sat – Wed
October 4, 2025 @ 9:00 am - October 8, 2025 @ 5:00 pm
The essential Survival 1 Foundation 5 Day skills course will enable you to out into the wilderness and get home safely. This course is a foundation level for folks with little to no experience in the outdoors.
Weekend topics include:
- Survival progression & routines
- Hitches, knots and lashings
- Quick shelters
- Basic Fire: matches, lenses, lighters, ferro rods, tinder
- Types of fire lays
- Water purification
- Basic Map & compass
- Aid-less navigation
- Plants for food, medicine and other uses
- Intro: foraging, medicinals and utilities
- Intro to: Debris Hut Basics
- Bow Drill: form and technique
- Water Storage, Camp and hunting tools
- Tracking, Traps and snares
- Field butchering, Primitive Cooking
- Food preservation
Maine Primitive Skills School offers campsites to students during their stay at no extra charge. When preparing to arrive, plan as if you were going on a comfortable car camping experience. You will have easy access to your vehicles during meals and before and after course times. Check out our “What to Bring” page and don’t hesitate to contact the school for more details.
Price: $750
Time: 9am – 5pm Sat to Wed
Limit: 12 Students
Deposits transferable but non-refundable
Minimum Age: 16 years and older
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Course location:- Maine Primitive Skills School, 716 Church Hill Road, Augusta, ME 04330 www.primitiveskills.com Tel: +1 207-623-7298 E-mail: staff@primitiveskills.com