The number one danger to someone lost or injured in the outdoors is exposure. Therefore, knowing how to quickly build a basic shelter is vital. Participants will learn how to use basic shelter products you can carry in your kit, and natural resources you will gather from the surrounding landscape, to create different types of bushcraft survival shelters. Participants will also be introduced to useful knots and the rapid deployment ridgeline for throwing up a tarp shelter. Topics covered also include:
-Important considerations for wilderness shelters
-How to fabricate cordage from natural resources
-Important knots, and cordage usage
-Tube tent, tarp, and sheet plastic shelters
-Ways to use emergency blankets and ponchos for shelter
-Building lean-to, and debris shelters using natural materials