Winter Outdoor Survival Training

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Location: McKenzie Bridge, Oregon
Date: Coming again 2027
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Testimonial

2025. I just completed the Winter Outdoor Survival Training with Mark, the second course I've had the pleasure of attending now. Once again, I was struck by how much I managed to learn in so short a time, and how much fun I had doing it. With his decades of hands-on experience and a carefully constructed program, he provides an environment that allows students to understand the realities of a survival situation as they learn new skills they can immediately apply and succeed in. I highly recommend attending any of Mark's classes, and I'm already looking forward to my next! ~Rainer Bergmann

Testimonial

“I attended Mark's 2025 winter survival course. I'd wanted to challenge myself and set out on a series of quests. This was the most daunting one - at least beforehand.

However, Mark made the whole learning experience approachable and deep, starting with a series of emails that helped to identify the clothing and kit we'd need. Even though I've watched survival videos and read such books for years and years, I was astonished at how basically every activity we did entailed learning something new.

Yes, part of it was the power of learning by doing. But more than that, it was the way Mark explained each activity, linking the skills to principles. Yes, there were times I was cold during camp, but nowhere as much as I feared. I left forever changed...and more confident that I can weather really tough conditions. Highly, highly recommended.”  ~ RE Mason

Winter Survival and Bushcraft Skills

We focus on winter bushcraft skills, emphasizing fire craft and emergency shelter in winter forest environments.

• the amount of time available to practice your emergency fire skills in austere conditions is exceptional and ongoing. Continuing through each day of camp.
• hours of applied knife, axe, fire, and shelter training.
• hands-on bush craft from feather and fuzz sticks, to wood crafting kitchen implements, to useful techniques for cooking and treating drinking water over an open fire.
• you will learn what, where, and how to forage coarse and fine kindling’s. Key out local trees and wild plants that provide foliage for tinder bundles for one-match fires.
• several unique fire lays are taught to increase your experience in fire craft while allowing you the opportunity for you to experiment and apply fire making techniques you’ve never had the opportunity to do.
• bathing in winter offers its own unique challenge. A base camp for training offers us the opportunity to build an use a rustic sauna for warming and relaxing.