Survival Fire Workshop
The Cottonwood Institute is excited to present a one-day Survival Fire Workshop for adventurous adults that want to hone their survival skills and practice a variety of fire making techniques.
During this course you will participate in an interactive survival scenario, learn about survival priorities, tips, strategies, and techniques, practice fire building techniques, 1-match fires, striker and cotton ball fires, friction fire, bow drill fires, and you will learn how to make a survival kit. This day will be action packed, so get ready to learn how to make a survival fire that could save your life!
To register for this course, please click the Register For A Course Today! link or call us at 303.447.1076.
COURSE ITINERARY:
- Meet at Chautauqua Park in Boulder at 8:00am
- Check/issue gear
- Load gear and carpool to base camp location
- Review safety issues
- Hike to our base camp location
- Survival scenario, debrief the scenario, go over survival priorities
- Principles of fire building
- Positive impact fires
- Natural tinder
- 1-match fires
- Striker and cotton ball fires
- Lunch
- Friction fire
- Rescue methods and techniques
- Survival kits
- Break down fire pit and base camp
- Complete course by 5:00pm
To register for this course, please click the Register For A Course Today! link or call us at 303.447.1076.
NUTS AND BOLTS:
- Age: 18 or older unless accompanied by an adult.
- Location: Near Ward, Colorado
- Dates: Saturday, May 23, 2009 (Course Code: SF-1) and Saturday, September 23, 2009 (Course Code: SF-2)
- Price: $100. Please Note: This price does not include airfare to and from Colorado, airport shuttles, hotel lodging, or transportation to base camp location.
- Difficulty: Be prepared to work hard practicing survival skills at altitude. The Cottonwood Institute encourages folks to work at their own pace to make the course as mild or as wild as they would like, even if it is slow and steady!
- Average Temperatures: High 70ºF / Low 40ºF. Be prepared for any kind of weather in the mountains of Colorado.
- Course Text: Bushcraft: Outdoor Skills and Wilderness Survival, by Mors Kochanski.
- To download a copy of the Registration Packet for this course, Click Here.
To register for this course, please click the Register For A Course Today! link or call us at 303.447.1076.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
I am traveling from out of state, how should I get to Colorado? We have had students from California, Wyoming, Ohio, New York, and New Orleans. If you are traveling from out of state, you need to coordinate your travel arrangements so you fly to Denver International Airport (DIA) one day before your course starts and plan to leave the day after your course ends. You will need to arrange lodging the night before your course starts and the night your course ends. A Cottonwood Institute representative will pick you up from your hotel the morning your course starts and take you to our course start location. When you register for this course, you will receive a detailed registration packet outlining all of the travel logistics. (Photo Credit: Denver International Airport).
To register for this course, please click the Register For A Course Today! link or call us at 303.447.1076.
HELP SPREAD THE WORD:
Please Click Here to download a copy of our 2009 Survival Workshop Schedule for Adults. We are a small grassroots organization, so if you would be willing to email a copy of this flyer to your friends or print a few
copies to post at your school, office, or favorite coffee shop, we would absolutely love it!
