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Wilderness Survival Training in Texas

Wilderness survival training in Texas

What is Wilderness Survival Training in Texas?

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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
Treating water by boiling in Texas

Water and Hydration

Learn about locating water, water-heavy plants & trees, filtering-treatment and solar
Fire Craft Texas survival training.

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
Wildlife behavior

Human Animal Behavior

Understand human animal behavior, myths, legends, and helpful techniques
Cougar print in sand

Animal Tracking

Learn powerful skills for animal tracking. When was the track made? How old is the track?
Cooking food over hot coals

Primitive Cooking

Practice firsthand survival food preparation, fire lays, cooking woods
Develop your survival knife skill

Survival Knife

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

Wilderness Survival Training Texas

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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

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"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

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.

More Camp Action!

Texas woman learning the bow drill"
Woman student learning fire craft with staff."
Texas students gathering debris for a leaf hut"
Texas woman in leaf pile survival shelter"
Qiong at Wilderness Survival Training in Texas."
Texas Students 2014"
Cake cooked in survival camp oven."
Staff and Students 2018"

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