Pacific Northwest Survival
(Vancouver)

Join in on the adventure of a lifetime on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. Fish for cod, gather shellfish, harvest edible and medicinal plants while living in a moss-shelter your team has constructed. Spend 5 days as a group training in survival, learning to create fire from scratch using the bow-drill and hand-drill, baskets from rootlets, traps, rope, traditional fish-hooks, canteens from bark, crab traps, celestial navigation, fishing, spear-fishing and a myriad of other survival skills. The next 4 days you start from scratch with the group, or on your own, with minimal supplies as you test your skills and get the true "Alone" experience. Get "rescued" after 8 days of community, adventure, crafting, creating, gathering and living in one of the most scenic places on Earth. This is not just a class, or an experience. Hopefully, this is a reset, one that connects you with your own rythms and the rythms of the natural world.

The Class

The Plan

Fly into Vancouver International and meet Wild staff and the rest of the group. From here we will take a van to Port Hardy, Vancouver where we will then transfer to a water taxi and head off to Malei Island Resort where we will spend the evening having a drink and relaxing in the salt-water hot tub as we hope to see whales pass by along the shoreline, have dinner and get ready for our excursion.

The next day we transfer in a boat to a private beach on Negei Island where we will set camp for the training part of the course. The first 5 days will be spent comfortably sleeping in Hennessey Hammocks, eating well, training in survival and bushcraft while getting ready for the survival test phase of the class. On day 6 you and your team will head off into the forest with only the bare essentials. During this phase you will hunt and gather and fish for your own food, build a group shelter, make fires and hone the skills you have learned.

This location is loaded with wild food and should prove to be a survivalist's dream.