Take a 5-hour wilderness survival skills class in a beautiful Santa Cruz redwood forest. Learn and practice core wilderness techniques with an expert instructor-guide. Your course covers starting a fire by friction, creating shelter, identifying edible plants, and finding and preparing food in the wilderness. Without the tools of the modern world, you’ll build useful skills for a wilderness setting and hear about age-old skills used by the native peoples of California. Build confidence and expand your knowledge base during this fun and fascinating wilderness class.

• 5-hour wilderness survival skills class in Santa Cruz
• Learn wilderness survival skills with an instructor during a hands-on workshop
• Practice building a shelter and making a fire with friction
• Suitable for all levels from novice camper to seasoned backpacker

What To Expect

Adventure Out is Northern California's oldest/longest-running survival school. Operating in the Santa Cruz Mountains since 2002, our expert instructors will teach you the basics of survival in this hands on course. Fire-by-friction, Shelter Construction, Water collection and purification, and primitive hunting and trapping techniques.