Our Staying Alive adventure was featured in Backpacker magazine's September 1999 issue for a reason. For the last 17 years it's taught dozens of students no-nonsense, practical skills designed to help them survive a modern wilderness emergency. Loosely based upon Cody's best-selling book, 98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive, this course is what every outdoor traveler needs to know for maximum safety and enjoyment in the outdoors.

Modern Fire: learn the art of making fire from paper, wood, and metal matches, as well as lighters, magnesium, chemicals, optics and parabolics, how to boil water with corn chips, the physics of fire, techno-tinders that work, fool-proof home-made tinder, fire safety and fire extinguishing techniques.

Wilderness Shelter: where, what, why and how to build improvised shelter for hot and cold environments, how to sleep warm and dry, use space blankets, set up the multi-use tarp and choose outdoor clothing to prevent hypothermia and hyperthermia.

Water Wisdom: creating water through evapotranspiration, bag and solar stills, water survival gear, nature's water indicators in the woods and making it fit to drink using modern water disinfection methods.

Signaling for Rescue: getting attention using mirrors, ground to air, sound and smoke, homemade signal mirrors and whistles.

Survival Psychology and Physiology: effective trip planning, recognizing survival priorities in the deserts and mountains, dealing with fear in yourself and others, activating the Search and Rescue system and much more.

Important training consideration: Many outdoor schools confuse primitive living skills with modern outdoor survival skills. There is a radical difference between the two, both in their intention and how the skills are executed in the field under stress and fear. If you want to learn the truth about preparing for and surviving hypothermia and hyperthermia, the biggest outdoor killers, this course is must-know outdoor knowledge. Learn dozens of no-nonsense skills that can save your life or that of someone you love! (minimal hiking required)

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