About the Course
The Wilderness Orienteering and Survival course is designed to teach students the skills necessary to "survive" in a wilderness environment. GPS and map/compass skills will be taught in a variety of terrains. Basic survival skills — such as shelter building, fire building, food and water procurement, and finding your way out without a map and a compass — are just some of the skills that will be taught. Each student is expected to participate in all aspects of the course, including the five-day survival simulation experience in the mountains and on the rivers and lakes of Maine/New Hampshire. The course will combine some lectures and a local one-day hike and will culminate in a "survival trek."Instructor
Dr. Robert Ricketts, Penn State Department of Kinesiology
program of the College of Health and
Human Development
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