ONE Day Taster
Price Per Person: £55
Dates: Feb 8th, March 8th, April 11th, May 10th, June 13th, July 12th, Sept 13th, Nov 7th, Dec 13th
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Dates: Feb 8th, March 8th, April 11th, May 10th, June 13th, July 12th, Sept 13th, Nov 7th, Dec 13th
Please contact for more details
Location - Symondsbury West Dorset
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This is a great opportunity to come into the countryside and play! At the same time, we shall study important and specific aspects of survival that can make the difference between a good or a very bad day out.
We start at 9:30am, making our way with full awareness across country, stopping for various lessons along the way. On reaching the training site we will stop for some lunch before continuing into the afternoon with specific training activities. We'll look at and experience some of the simple things that can put us in a potential survival situation. And we’ll discover how some very ordinary items can make all the difference. The day is full of interesting challenges that ask you to think in new and exciting ways. We shall study shelter, fire, signalling for help, sourcing and treating water. We’ll also cover foraging and natural navigation. If this is the only course you do with us you will still finish the day with new skills and knowledge and with a greater understanding of your own strengths and blossoming potential. |
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TWO Day Woodland Survival
Price Per Person: £125
Dates: Feb 15th/16th, March 28th/29th, April 18th/19th, June 20th/21st, Sept 26th/27th, Oct 17th/18th,
Dec 19th/20th
Dates: Feb 15th/16th, March 28th/29th, April 18th/19th, June 20th/21st, Sept 26th/27th, Oct 17th/18th,
Dec 19th/20th
This course will give you a good grounding in the principles and techniques necessary to survive in the wild. You will learn the skills and techniques of shelter building, ways to make fire, signal for help and how to locate and treat water. We will look at the many possibilities of foraging for food and catching game. and spend time looking at natural navigation techniques and how we can use them to orientate ourselves. Woods offer a glimpse into a hidden world with an abundance of resources once you know what to look for. There are endless possibilities for shelter just for a start. In our woods we have Tawny Owls, Ravens, and Deer to name a few of the creatures you can see and here.
This 2 day 1 night course is perfect for people who want to get more from the countryside but feel apprehensive. You will learn interesting new skills and the fundamental skills of survival that will dispel any anxieties of sleeping out in the open.
Location - Symondsbury West Dorset
This 2 day 1 night course is perfect for people who want to get more from the countryside but feel apprehensive. You will learn interesting new skills and the fundamental skills of survival that will dispel any anxieties of sleeping out in the open.
Location - Symondsbury West Dorset
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Testimonials
Zilvi | This course was a real eye opener for me as it offered me an insight into what it would take to survive in the woods with minimal recourses. From the very first moment our instructor Aaron shared with us a wealth of knowledge that was delivered with enthusiasm, and it was ever present till we said our goodbyes - this helped me mentally push on in moments weakness (lack of sleep, exhaustion and hunger to keep pushing and grow). A great experience and would recommended to anyone who wants to go back to nature. Thanks, Aaron! Alana and Raihan|
Had a wonderful time on the course and learned so much! Met some really amazing people! Aaron was a wonderful teacher, full of stories and was a really inspirational person. He was incredibly patient and calm, offering advise or support when we were learning a new skill to any who needed it. All of what we learnt allows us to look at the world with a new eye, listening a little more to what the world wants to say and giving us more confidence in life's challenges. Thank you Aaron! |
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THREE Day Woodland Survival
Price Per Person: £190
Dates: March 20th/21st/22nd, May 22nd/23rd/24th, July 24th/25th/26th, Nov 20th/21st/22nd
Dates: March 20th/21st/22nd, May 22nd/23rd/24th, July 24th/25th/26th, Nov 20th/21st/22nd
Three days and two nights gives us the chance to fully engage more and immerse ourselves into the outdoors. We cover all the basic skills from making a shelter from a poncho to making shelters from the natural materials around us and ways of signaling for help
The survival concept of PLAN is straight forward and covers the fundamentals of Protection, Location, Acquisition and Navigation and rescue within 72 hours.
However, what if no-one knows we’re missing? Or we don’t want to be found? This is when we need more skills and emphasis will be placed on looking at remote living and wilderness skills.
The course is very hands on starting with meet and greet and then your main packs will be taken on ahead for you so we can start our adventure. From here on in you’ll just need a day bag of basics. Knife, flint and steel, bottle of water and a few snacks.
Making our way on foot across country to our main camp we start
to look at the type of issues that can put us into a survival situation and some of the skills that might help get us out, starting with mapping and natural navigation as our walk takes us through fields and woods.
Once at the main site will learn how to build a variety of shelters and the type of knots that can make the whole process much easier.
The importance of how to make fire can’t be emphasized enough so we take a more in-depth look at the subject including how to make fire by friction. This will include sourcing the materials to make your own bow drill set as well as learning the skills to make fire by friction.
We will cover simple ways to add rescue with both active and passive signals for bothnight and day that will help attract and guide people to our location.
Water is critical to our survival so finding it and knowing ways of treating and making safe to drink is of paramount importance. We’ll also look at finding natural water sources and making gypsy wells.
And then it’s down to what we might find or catch to eat and the reality of foraging food. We will look at bugs and grubs and how we might catch bigger pray with snares and traps. And how to deal with game preparation.
Methods of making cordage give us even greater possibilities so we shall also look at simple techniques using grasses, tree barks and nettles that can also add shelter building.
And if the weather is good we might move to a different location for the night to test some of our new skills and learn some astro navigation.
And finally, we will focus on ways of blazing a trail and how to navigate across country and some ways of crossing rivers that might requiring rope work.
Food shall be as basic as you want it, you can eat what you find or take advantage of the food I give you.
You will prepare and cook all your meals and tea and coffee breaks when appropriate. If you’re a vegetarian or vegan or have any dietary needs or allergies please don’t hesitate to say and we can make sure you’re sorted.
In all we will coverSurvival priorities.
Emergency shelter natural and man-made.
Lighting a fire by improvised means using only natural resources.
Day and night active and passive ways of signaling for help.
Sourcing and treating water to make safe for drinking.
How to make improvised bindings and cordage.
Foraging for wild foods and how to make survival game traps.
Basic natural navigation techniques.
The survival concept of PLAN is straight forward and covers the fundamentals of Protection, Location, Acquisition and Navigation and rescue within 72 hours.
However, what if no-one knows we’re missing? Or we don’t want to be found? This is when we need more skills and emphasis will be placed on looking at remote living and wilderness skills.
The course is very hands on starting with meet and greet and then your main packs will be taken on ahead for you so we can start our adventure. From here on in you’ll just need a day bag of basics. Knife, flint and steel, bottle of water and a few snacks.
Making our way on foot across country to our main camp we start
to look at the type of issues that can put us into a survival situation and some of the skills that might help get us out, starting with mapping and natural navigation as our walk takes us through fields and woods.
Once at the main site will learn how to build a variety of shelters and the type of knots that can make the whole process much easier.
The importance of how to make fire can’t be emphasized enough so we take a more in-depth look at the subject including how to make fire by friction. This will include sourcing the materials to make your own bow drill set as well as learning the skills to make fire by friction.
We will cover simple ways to add rescue with both active and passive signals for bothnight and day that will help attract and guide people to our location.
Water is critical to our survival so finding it and knowing ways of treating and making safe to drink is of paramount importance. We’ll also look at finding natural water sources and making gypsy wells.
And then it’s down to what we might find or catch to eat and the reality of foraging food. We will look at bugs and grubs and how we might catch bigger pray with snares and traps. And how to deal with game preparation.
Methods of making cordage give us even greater possibilities so we shall also look at simple techniques using grasses, tree barks and nettles that can also add shelter building.
And if the weather is good we might move to a different location for the night to test some of our new skills and learn some astro navigation.
And finally, we will focus on ways of blazing a trail and how to navigate across country and some ways of crossing rivers that might requiring rope work.
Food shall be as basic as you want it, you can eat what you find or take advantage of the food I give you.
You will prepare and cook all your meals and tea and coffee breaks when appropriate. If you’re a vegetarian or vegan or have any dietary needs or allergies please don’t hesitate to say and we can make sure you’re sorted.
In all we will coverSurvival priorities.
Emergency shelter natural and man-made.
Lighting a fire by improvised means using only natural resources.
Day and night active and passive ways of signaling for help.
Sourcing and treating water to make safe for drinking.
How to make improvised bindings and cordage.
Foraging for wild foods and how to make survival game traps.
Basic natural navigation techniques.
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Testimonials
Ian “Aaron Fuest provides outstanding courses. He shares his incredible depth of knowledge with such generosity of mind and such simplicity of thought that it is impossible to leave his company without a greater knowledge of how to survive in the wild and a better feeling about the world in general. He is a thoughtful, funny and inspirational teacher whose courses are a must for anyone wanting to learn more about the wild and how survive it or simply just enjoy it.” Ian Kerr Jules I have just completed the 3 day extended basic woodland survival course and I would like to say thank-you to Aaron Fuest for providing me with knowledge and lessons from his mental kit bag. I now feel confident enough to go out on my own and use the lessons I have been taught to put to practice. I would recommend this course for anyone interested in the outdoors and nature as this puts you in good stead for dealing with any problems that may arise. Carolyn L What a fantastic course!! Thoroughly enjoyed it and learnt so much. Aaron was brilliant - great teacher and so supportive. I will be practising my feathering skills on kindle wood for a while I am sure. Three days was perfect - enough time to practice the skills we learnt on days one and two. A fantastic group of people just added to the experience. |
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THREE Day Coastal Survival
Price Per Person: £190
Dates: Weather permitting- Dates will be released later this year. Don't miss out! register your interest to be
notified on release.
Dates: Weather permitting- Dates will be released later this year. Don't miss out! register your interest to be
notified on release.
The coastal course offers some real challenges and some great opportunities. The main challenge is that wood of any description is scarce, so shelter and fire require even more thought than normal. In fact, you have very little to protect you from the elements: I’ve been scorched by the sun and drenched by rain and all in a day. So, with these challenges come new skills and many new techniques. However, the coast offers greater possibilities for foraging food. With resources such as fish, shellfish, seaweeds and coastal plant life. Beach combing and a scavenger’s eye can make all the difference so more emphasis is given to foraging. You will have to live from foraged food for one night so the skills learnt will be put to the test. We will put out a long line and traps for fish and look at how to prep and cook our catch using a pit oven. And if the weather is good and the sun is out, we'll we can lay back and soak up some rays!
Location - Bigbury Devon
Location - Bigbury Devon
Testimonials
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Carolyn R
Although I have been on a couple of survival courses, being an avid viewer of the Bear Gylls 'The Island ' series I was keen to experience coastal survival. After doing the usual online research I decided to go with Aaron Fuest... and that was definitely a good decision! The course covered a wide range of skills many of which were specific to coastal survival such as where to find food, shelter, water but also how to signal for rescue in an emergency using fire beacons and flotsam to make SOS signs. The width and depth of Aaron's knowledge was remarkable as was his obvious and apparent affinity with the natural world. I learnt so much in those few days -not just the practical /physical skills but a real understanding of the coastal environment and how to use it without abusing it. There were 6 of us in our group ( I was the only female ) and we had different levels of competency. None of us was ever made to feel as though we were under pressure - Aaron was always calm and patient and made sure that we all mastered every skill. It was an absolutely fantastic weekend and I came away feeling a deep sense of achievement and inner strength. Thanks Aaron . Jane
Great course, really enjoyed it....and I caught a fish - thanks Aaron for being a very understanding instructor |
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FOUR Day Extreme Survival
Price Per person: £235
Dates: October 23rd/26th
Dates: October 23rd/26th
Our 4-days 3-nights advanced course is a grueling and demanding challenge needing prior knowledge and training with us on either our 2 day or 3 day course. This advanced course runs only four times a year and is designed to substantially test your skills and inner strength. It is based on a detailed survival scenario that requires all the fundamentals. The first phase will have you set up camp and over the next two days you will learn more of camp craft and the survival skills necessary to take part in the second phase. During the final phase of 2 days you will have ample opportunity to demonstrate everything that you have learnt. Some of the time you will be on the move so all aspects of PLAN will be used from protection through to navigation. The schedule of this course is demanding and full of highs and lows so having a sense of humor is vital; indeed it’s an important survival skill in its own right. The course and assessment are rigorous but it’s a challenge very well worth taking.
Location - Symondsbury West Dorset
Location - Symondsbury West Dorset
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Testimonials Pete Just back from four days of this course, caught short as I was developing a cold. Amazing, you learn so much but realise you know nothing and all the serious learning has to develop when you get home. Aaron was a brilliant instructor, knowledgeable patient and hilarious around the camp fire. I'm so coming back for more. John R|
Loved the course and the location is excellent, was a little windy but nothing we can do about that, Aaron the instructor was excellent and really knows his stuff - I would recommend this course, looking forward to doing a woodland survival next. |
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ONE Day Spoon Carving Chilling in the Woods
Price Per person:
Dates: Various 10am - 4pm Please contact for further details
Dates: Various 10am - 4pm Please contact for further details
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If you want the joy of something both attractive and functional then maybe this is for you. A day's spoon carving up at the Lodge. With time to sit back and enjoy the sound of the wind in the trees, away from the stress of everyday life. Here you have the chance to design and create something special, whether you want to sit quietly or chat amongst new friends, the day will allow you the opportunity to unwind and learn a new skill. All tools and materials are provided as well as tea, coffee and biscuits and if you're a keen baker then fell free to bring cake or flapjacks to share. |
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Bespoke and corporate bookings are also available
For further enquiries please email landtoseasurvival@gmail.com
For further enquiries please email landtoseasurvival@gmail.com