Rich is incredibly passionate about wilderness skills and the proper teaching of the subject matter . The skills he teaches are based upon his own experience ! This is not someone that has gotten his knowledge from a book , TV or YouTube : his knowledge comes from experience - from actually using the skills he teaches , which puts him in a very small minority of survival skills instructors . with Charles Werb
When the email arrived inviting me to do a 2 day Wilderness Survival Course with Rich Hungerford I jumped at the opportunity to re-acquaint myself with skills that had been suppressed over the past 7 years .
I lived and trained for the Outer Edge Polar Challenge , which was all based around keeping warm and snow-sailing ; but with my upcoming Stand Up Paddle around Florida Island in the Solomon Islands , unsupported and being self sufficient , I needed to make sure the survival skills I would potentially need were covered .
So off I went at 5am on a Saturday morning to Rich ’ s training compound .
We were a group of 7 , meeting for the first time and you can imagine the jaw dropping experience when Rich uttered these words “ Hi guys , welcome and there will be no food for the first 24 hours …”
The next 36 hours were spent honing and refining skills .
From basic skills like fire , trap and shelter building , to identifying edible plants to strategies for getting rescued , this course is packed with a staggering amount of useful information in a short two day format . This course does not pull punches . It makes you live the survival situation and experience the challenges first hand , but provides just enough guidance to help you learn from the experience .
You will come out of this course smarter and more able to survive . I can ’ t say enough about how impressed I was with Rich as the course instructor . He teaches from experience , not theory , and does so with humor , patience and a deep understanding how to approach a survival situation .
Make no mistake , you will work hard , you will sweat , get dirty , fatigued , cold , hungry and tired . What you will not get , is a false sense of security about wilderness survival . You will learn about some of the most common mistakes in the survival books , not because he tells you so but because he explains and demonstrates why and then lets you experience for yourself the proper approach .
If you really want to learn wilderness survival skills from someone that has the knowledge , experience and has “ walked the walk ”, you owe it to yourself to attend Bush Lore Australia . I highly recommend this course for anyone who hikes , camps or simply wants to be better prepared to survive in the wilderness .
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Rich Hungerford not only knows the subject thoroughly , he is able to relay the information and find ways to make the subject matter stick . Classroom work and “ hands on ” drills in the field , along with his desire to make sure the subject is understood , makes this course unique .
You can really feel Rich ’ s need to make sure his students don ’ t just earn a “ Completion Card ” but that they really understand and are able to execute the proper skills in a real world situation .
He knows this really could mean the difference between Life and Death for someone .