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Wilderness Survival School - Denver - 2025

Wilderness Survival Course

Wilderness Survival School

The Wilderness Survival School is designed to provide the skills and self-confidence to increase your odds of survival in an unexpected stay in the wilderness.

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John Lindner
John Lindner
Leader
The Wilderness Survival School is designed to provide the skills and self-confidence to increase your odds of survival in an unexpected stay in the wilderness.  Topics covered include, but are not limited to, preventing a survival emergency, psychology/attitude, shelters, signaling, fire craft, and hypothermia. Survival related medical emergencies, case histories and other priorities will also be covered. 
This course includes three weeknight evening lectures and one overnight field session that provides practical training/ experience in a simulated survival situation.  This school is particularly informative to the novice/intermediate hiker, but even very experienced CMC members have found this school valuable.

Enrollment is open to all CMC members and guests with ANY level of backcountry experience or hiking classification.

The overnight training is not a “sink-or-swim” field trip, and we will NOT be surviving off of roots, berries, wild mushrooms or killing and eating bugs/wildlife. The goal is to learn from a simulated survival situation and to practice skills with the equipment we should normally carry in our daypacks.  Students may bring tents, sleeping bags and other backup equipment if they desire.  Overnight session will be held close to the parking area.  There are no physical stamina requirements to attend the field session. 

The CMC has very recently relocated to a new building and the facility is not yet set up to accommodate any school classes.  All Denver Group CMC schools, seminars and programs are using alternate locations to conduct sessions for an indefinite period.

The three 2025 WSS classroom sessions will be held at Jefferson Unitarian Church at 14350 West 32nd Avenue in Golden on Thursday's May 8th, 15th and 22nd.  This location is 1.0 mile east of the new CMC offices on 32nd Avenue.  Times will be from 7 pm to no later than 9:30 pm.  Signs will be posted with directions to the room we will use. 

The overnight field session is scheduled for firm dates of June 7th & 8th 2025 (will be all-day Saturday with a return to town Sunday morning). 

Tuition is $89.00.  A textbook and some supplies will be provided.

Cancellation and Refund Policy: https://www.cmc.org/about/cancellation-and-refund-policy

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Course Requirements

This course has no scheduled activities.

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Required Equipment

Ten Essentials plus some recommended materials and supplies which will be announced in classroom sessions..

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