WE TEACH BASIC SURVIVAL SKILLS AT THE HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE IN VIRGINIA!

We were retained to travel to the prestigious Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia to present a Basic Survival Skills program the weekend of March 29th.  This is one of the last two all men's colleges left in the US.  The lecture portions of our course were presented indoors in refined and elegant surroundings. We then took the students out into the woods on the 900 acre campus, which even included hiking trails, for hands-on training. 

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These are the gates entering the Hampden-Sydney College campus.

Students learn to interpret contour lines with our model mountain.

Learning to orient a map with a compass.

Students practice shooting an azimuth with a compass.

Explaining the concept of lateral drift when using a compass.

Students learn about the bow and drill for friction based fire making.

Building an immediate action shelter using a bent sapling.

Learning to build a natural shelter from available resources.

A student team building a spring snare.

Testing a spring snare made by a student team.

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These are the gates entering the Hampden-Sydney College campus.

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