Wilderness Survival Training in Texas

Folk's, I sincerely regret to say we will not be offering this course in 2024.
Thank you for your interest in this exceptional program.
Sincerely, Mark J. Wienert, Lifesong Wilderness Adventures.

What is Wilderness Survival Training in Texas?

Wilderness Survival Training in Texas is skills-based, hands-on outdoor training, emphasizing both modern and primitive technology. You'll enjoy challenges and growth through this full-immersion survival training camp!

Whether you are curious about developing survival skills or already on your way, Texas Camp creates an intimate setting that provides many opportunities to practice, and to grow your knowledge.

Gain a sense of what it might be like in real survival situations, while taking on proven skills to ensure fail-safe outcomes.
Get real 'Dirt Time' with a professional survival trainer. You'll engage in exercises that will expand your senses, movement, and awareness in nature. You'll practice valuable scenarios in real outdoor survival conditions that will build your confidence, knowledge and skills.

Develop These Valuable Survival Skills

Survival Shelter

Master tarp-knots, debris and lean-to shelters, and shelter-location/safety

Water and Hydration

Learn about locating water, water-heavy plants & trees, filtering-treatment and solar

Fire Craft

Discover which fire materials to harvest, and build/sustain a fire in any condition.

Underground Cooking Video

Even More Survival Knowledge To Discover!

Prickly pear native edible plant of Texas

Useful Texas Plants

Study useful and edible plants and those to avoid at all costs.

Photo of Deadfall trap for making meat in Texas

Primitive Survival Traps

Learn to make meat with primitive snares and deadfalls

Human Animal Behavior

Understand human animal behavior, myths, legends, and helpful techniques

Animal Tracking

Learn powerful skills for animal tracking. When was the track made? How old is the track?

Primitive Cooking

Practice firsthand survival food preparation, fire lays, cooking woods

Survival Knife

Improve your knowledge on knife types, sharpening techniques and safety.

Wilderness Survival Training Texas

DETAILS

Cancelled for 2024.

Spring Break - Wilderness Survival Training in Texas!

Ask yourself this question...

Could you survive outdoors during a natural disaster for one week? Without matches, a gun, knife, food, and the skills needed to survive.

We provide the knowledge and hands-on training to give the edge during any crisis.

We teach you how to survive and thrive in nature!
Do you know how to supply yourself with the most basic survival needs? Our expert training will prepare you!

What People Say About Their Experience

"What I took away from this experience is a bit difficult to put into words, but it was like nothing I have experienced before and will carry with me throughout the rest of my life."

~Chris Watters

Hi, Mark. This is Qiong. I attended the Texas survival camp last year and had a wonderful time. When people asked me about my best time in America, I always mentioned my experience during the camp. That was probably my most exciting and memorable adventure I have ever done.

~Qiong Wu

Get the Details

Camp Meals

Grub Time and Survivor Stews

Meals:

As an immersion course on survival, you'll be happy to know we serve filling and satisfying savory meals. That is not to say that you'll eat familiar foods. After all, to fully experience the stresses of survival training our food may not be like your normal fair.

A typical breakfast meal may include:

Fast Whole Foods:
Fruits
Eggs
Oatmeal
Gorp (a mix of dried fruits and nuts)

Main Meals (Mostly prepared in Dutch ovens and open fire)

Beans
Vegetable Stews
Underground Oven
Treats & Snacks
Someone's Birthday Cake
Fruits and Nuts

Optional Wilderness Meals

Survivor Stew (A mix of below)
Landscape offerings
Foraged plants
Insects (beetle larvae, pine bark beetles, ant larva, ants, scorpions, earthworms)

Trappings

Rodent Surprise

Daily Schedule

"You will experience a very welcoming flow of learning complex skills paired with hard work, being at peace with surroundings and good conversation."

An example of a day at camp:

Breakfast around 7-8am

Take a Walk to limber our bodies, learn how to move through the forest and to get to know the area.
Lecture and Demonstration (Skill(s) for the Day)
Bow drill construction-use
Carve with your knife
Best Practices
Safety
Create Your Bow Drill
Wood selection
Carving

Lunch - working lunch

Start on next Skill/Project/Adventure
Fire Craft
Emergency Fire Craft Application and Safety
tree & plant tinder
cordage-fiber
Learn fire for all conditions
One-match fire
Construct a fire lay
Tinder
Plants and trees
Fire craft covers lots of information. Lessons and practice continues through the afternoon.

Dinner Break 1-1-1/2 hour

Evening Community Time
Getting to know one another

Wildlife human relationship

Tracking
9pm fall into exhausted sleep

Nervous In a Group?

You're a Valuable Part of the Circle

We've taught hundreds of people just like you. Here is what we experience:

This is a small group event, no more than 20 people attending
Survival is based on helping and supporting one another
All students start with a common goal of learning survival
It takes a special and unique person who attend these events, which makes this event all the more interesting
There is often a good easy-going group of both men and women who attend
Everyone is of different age groups and have different histories. All ages 16+ are welcome
There are no stupid questions
We do not tolerate bullying, or rudeness

Everyone has an opportunity to get to know each other, and often times develop close bonds

Our Students come from various countries: Mexico, Scotland, Denmark, Ukraine, India, Tibet
and from the US: Mostly from California, Oregon, Washington, Texas, Illinois, and other States of the USA

Natural Fears and Apprehension

Live Closer to the Earth and in Harmony with Nature

There is a sense of romance in nature, but if you've never been out in the wilderness before, it is common to be apprehensive. We have helped many people through the beginning discovery of wilderness exposure. We cover animal behavior, including the large predators, and how to keep yourself safe. Soon you will experience the peace and simplicity of the forest. Learning self-sufficiency in a survival situations will ease your fears and give you confidence.

Our training and experience will help you:

Lose the fear
Get strong
Be capable

Here are some Favorite Lessons from the Survival Camp Experience

Confidence.
How to make a fire without even matches.
All the different kinds of wild plants you can use for food or medicine.
How to make fire, rope, and even my own shelter from what’s available.
If I was alone in the wilderness, I know could I feed and shelter myself.
I learned that everything I need to survive is already out there.

Additional Information

Students: adult and Teens 16 an older with parental consent - enrollment maximum 20
Camp duration: Sunday-Friday
Schedule: begins on a Sunday 1:00 pm – ends on a Friday at 12:00 noon
Location: 40 minute drive southeast of Austin Texas.
Accommodations: camping included
meals provided
Equipment: a registration and directions to camp packet will be supplied after enrollment
Parking: included
Transport: see additional services for airport & bus shuttle

We reserve the right to add to or omit any of the course topics listed.

Volunteer

Previous students are welcome and encouraged to volunteer and help support new students and camp. Volunteering is hard work! If you wish to be a volunteer for this course, contact Mark with your request to volunteer.