About the Course
Many people wonder how they would do if placed in a sudden "survival situation." How would you establish your priorities? Would you decide to hike for rescue or stay put?

Research has shown that the first 72-hours after a situation occurs are the most important for your safety and survival. To help increase your chances of surviving these 72-hours, BOSS has created the 72-Hour Survival Rescue Course. It's fun, it's exciting, and it's challenging. Above all, you'll learn something about yourself and about true survival.

Course Content
The 72-Hour Survival Rescue course is designed to simulate a true survival scenario. Held in a remote location in the desert or mountains near Boulder, Utah, the course will be built around a realistic survival situation in which something “unexpected” has happened to the group.   The students will learn to prioritize their needs and how to take care of each priority. The students must then make decisions and take actions based on these priorities of survival. These challenges may include finding food and water and creating ways to stay warm and signal for rescue.  

Instruction will be based on an experiential learning model, which gives the student a chance to attempt and explore all options before the instructors debrief and explain what other decisions or actions may have been more helpful. Survival skills will therefore be taught within the context of each group's actions and needs. The skills taught on this course will stay true to the primitive skills BOSS has always taught, however, a few modern options for survival will also be presented that have a contextual basis in the survival scenario created.

This course will certainly test your mental and physical abilities to take care of yourself and your group when the chips are down, and nobody gets "voted off the island."

About BOSS
Since 1968, BOSS Courses have set the standard for low-technology camping and desert hiking techniques, where instruction is conducted with minimal intrusion of modern technology in environments that allow course content to be experienced first-hand. Our commitment to quality and to our core philosophies has earned BOSS its reputation as the survival school to go to when you want to learn from the best in the industry.

The Course Location
The 72-Hour Survival Rescue Course is held in the mountains and deserts around Boulder, Utah.

Learning by Doing & Personalized Instruction
At BOSS, we strongly believe in learning by doing. While at times, instruction will be done in lecture format, it will be done in the field where students can see what they are learning and can practice their skills in a natural environment. BOSS Course enrollment is designed to provide each course with a student-teacher ratio conducive to hands-on instruction. Our courses typically have 9-12 students and 3 staff. This ensures that our staff are available to students to help guide them through the lessons as needed or sought.

Age
The key to a successful course is a student's maturity and his or her interest in learning in a skills-intensive environment. However, because the Survival Rescue course likely contains a period of time without significant food, you must be at least 18 to participate in the Survival Rescue course.

Food & Diet
There will be no established menu of foods for this course. Students will have to make use of the resources they "discover" as part of the scenario presented.

2010 Dates & Prices

72-Hour Survival Rescue

SR-8

August 15 - 18, 2010

Utah

$675

Course dates and prices are subject to change. Space is limited on each course, and registrations are made on a first-come, first-served basis. Please go to the Registration page for more information.