Bushcraft Survival Course at Angoustrine-Villeneuve-des-Escaldes, near Font-Romeu

Your instructor will offer you a choice of different half-day workshops:

- Building a shelter: Construction of a shelter adapted to the local environment. Several possibilities and variants more or less efficient and/or quick, depending on the material and the time you will have in a survival situation. Quick method with Tarp (rain poncho or tarpaulin) + twine or forestry technique with branches + foliage (braided or not braided): TCHOUM. Improvement of comfort: waterproofing, insulation, windproofing, mattress...

- Making fire : Various methods will be taught to you to light a fire in the middle of nature, to make it safe, to maintain it : with fire-stone, solar, by friction...from A to Z; Various uses of fire : lighting (torches), heating (reflector), heating/cooking (Swedish candle, cooking tripod, oven...), etc... (Supplied equipment: flint, magnifying glass, etc.).

- Finding and filtering water: Man can only survive for about "3 days without drinking"; you will therefore take the necessary steps to know where to find water and how to purify and filter "doubtful" water in order to make it drinkable; Demonstration with straws or filtering pumps, production of water by condensation using plants, making a filter with the means at your disposal, other alternatives. (Material provided: filter straw, micro-pure...)

- Orientation : Map reading and orientation in varied terrain (forest, mountains...); Making and using a compass, method of locating the 4 directions (N/S/E/O) without a compass, orientation techniques and navigation in the field. (Equipment provided: compass, map, walkie-talkie).

- Finding food and taking care of oneself: Introduction to entomophagy, identification and use of toxic, medicinal, edible wild flowers..., preparation and wild cooking, tasting. (Equipment provided: gleaning bag, frying pan, barbecue grill, salt, pepper)

- Use of ropes/strings: Different types and materials of ropes; Explanation and use of knots to make practical or comfort objects (shelter, evacuation stretcher, heat-reflecting wall, etc.); Use of ropes to overcome obstacles, uphill, downhill, handrail, zip line, etc. (Equipment provided: rope and string).

- Make practical utensils in Bushcraft: Fork, spoon, wooden mug..., chair, table, tripod... etc... (Supplied equipment: Swiss Army knife, hatchet)

- To learn different trap concepts: Making light hunting / fishing weapons and dynamic traps for small or medium game* . (Material provided: string)