Adult Survival Immersion 2025-26
Begins 10/4/25. Monthly/bi-monthly. Register with $325 deposit, pay remainder up front or monthly.
10 spots left
Service Description
18+ SEE IMMERSION WEBPAGE FOR GENERAL INFO, PAYMENT PLANS, FAQ. ACTIVITIES SUBJECT TO CHANGE RE: WEATHER OCTOBER (Overnight TBD) Intro + Survival Rules of 3 Overnight Camping Weekend. Get to know your team through sensory awareness + nature-based activities + games. Skills for the weekend will include basic wilderness survival triage; what is the first thing you should do when you realize you're in a survival situation? Topics will include water purification, shelter, fire + wild edibles OCTOBER (Overnight) Survival Shelters Make survival shelters as a team. Camp overnight on the land, immerse, and play nature games November (Sat + Sun meetings) Cordage, Carving, Knife Safety, Knots, Friction fire Learn to make a fire using the bow drill method. Everyone in the class will finish and take home their own bow drill kit and practice getting a coal to blow into flame. We'll also practice useful and practical methods of acquiring food in survival situations, practice making cordage from natural fibers, and get comfortable using knives for carving, billeting DECEMBER (Sunday) Stone Tool-Making One of the oldest skills practiced by people, and so useful. Imagine how you'd go about cutting, slicing, chopping wood, sewing, cooking, hunting, or fishing before metals were commonly used for these purposes. This meeting will be all about making tools: shaping stone into points OPTIONAL: Join the Naturalist crew on Saturday for an animal skull ID lesson JANUARY (Overnight) Winter Survival Join us on a winter survival snow shelter overnight. Learn to stay warm, dry, and fed in one of the coldest times of year. Build a snow shelter as a team + winter naturalist studies FEBRUARY (Saturday) Bow Making Learn to build your own bow. We will make one or two styles of quick survival bows MARCH (Sat + Sun Meetings) Wildlife Tracking + Primitive Traps Saturday, Join the Naturalist Immersion in a wildlife tracking field lesson. Sunday, we'll learn, set, and carve some primitive small game traps APRIL (TBD Overnight) Food Acquisition Foraging, ethics, cooking with wild plants. Make medicines and first aid supplies from natural materials harvested sustainably from the area. We'll spend a day focused on primitive hunting MAY (Overnight Fri-Sun) 3-day survival trip. Optional, but strongly encouraged. Folks who decide not to attend will have that reflected in their final bill JUNE (Overnight Fri-Sun) Final camping trip: OR Coast DUNES! Focus on coast ecosystem + tracking
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Cancellation Policy
Cancellation Policy: *Please understand that our programs are small groups and we invest a lot of our resources into outreach to fill them. When you sign up, you and the rest of those who are registered become the specific group of people to which our instructors tailor the program, including group size and specific needs. If you aren't sure you can attend your program, please wait to sign up until you know you are able! Please refrain from registering with the prior intent to switch enrollment to other courses, cancel later, etc. * Refunds are not typical. If you, the PARTICIPANT, CANCEL: We can offer credit for future programs if your space can be filled. If you contact us to cancel your spot, we'll reopen it and if it fills you'll then receive a coupon code for part of your tuition (minus processing fees, cancellation fee, etc.) to use in the future. You will not receive a credit or a refund if you miss part or all of your program, your space does not fill after you cancel, you no-call-no-show, etc. If you decide to gift/swap your space to a friend because you can no longer attend, great! Please communicate with us before the program so we can contact them with pertinent needs/info. "OOPS" Refund: If you registered by mistake, you may contact us via email WITHIN 24 HRS AFTER REGISTRATION AND AT LEAST 48 HRS BEFORE THE PROGRAM to request a refund. We will not honor "oops" refund requests outside of this timeframe. ​ If NIGHTHAWK CANCELS an entire program (not typical), due to extenuating circumstances: You'll be contacted ASAP and offered credit or refund, situation depending, if rescheduling isn't possible. We do not offer refund or credits if we have to call a late start, early pickup, or partial course cancellation due to air quality or weather. See below. ​ Inclement weather and Air Quality Policy: Know that we do our best to run programs as safely as possible given inclement weather. These calls are made on a day-by-day basis and your main contacts will be notified of any changes by 1-2 hours before the start of that day's programming. That is the absolute best we can do. Weather, especially air quality, is unpredictable. We reserve the right to shift the day's program location, operate indoors, or call late start or early pickup based on unsafe conditions. We very seldomly cancel a day of program and only do so if none of these other shifts are possible that day. See more details on policy page.
Contact Details
info@nighthawknaturalistschool.com