Course Offerings

Raven's Wood Enterprises Preparedness Training Center

Course Offerings

Family & Home Preparedness - This day long course includes learning how to prepare a plan for likely scenarios, building a family "larder", GOOD* kit construction, home protection and emergency food choices and preparation. This course should be conducted in your home to ensure a customized plan (one way mileage stipend required) or it can be done at Raven's Wood or at a location mutually agreeable with RWE and the client; handouts and course material provided. If conducted at Raven's Wood or non-home location, participants are responsible for food/beverages for themselves unless arrangements made with RWE staff.

Cost: $100 per family (1 Dad, 1 Mom & kids - All supplies provided by participants - a llst will be provided prior to class.)

Basic Woodscraft - This 8 hour course includes familiarization training on orienteering, fire starting, shelter building, survivial kit construction, and includes a campfire meal sure to "hit the spot"!

Cost: $95 per person (groups of 6 - 10 people - $75 per person) Family Pricing: $95 first adult; $75 second adult; $25 for each minor under 18 years (proof of age required).

Team Building - This day long course teaches teamwork using the beautiful northern Michigan wilderness as a teaching tool! The first half-day includes familiarization on orienteering, obstacle crossing, and basic survival skills. After an included survival ration lunch (more than enough to fill you up), each team will negotiate a predetermined course and navigate various obstacles (both natural and man made) over one half mile in length that will require each team to work together to successfully complete the course. Corporate managers who want to their folks to learn how to keep going in the face of unfamiliar challenges, this is the course for you! It's also great for couples, friends, clubs, and so on.

Cost:

2 to 4 partipants in the group: $225 per person

5 to 6 participants in the group: $175 per person

6 to 10 participants in the group: $125 per person

Spartan Weekend - This 36 hour course (Friday evening through approximately Sunday noon) takes the participant from learning basic surival training and orienteering into the world of self-reliance when after the completion of training, actual shelters are built and lived in, fires are made (from what the student has learned) so that food can be prepared, and hygiene performed. It's not easy, but when you're done, you'll know you can do what you need to if the chips are ever down! All survival rations and 1 gallon of potable water are provided for each student.

Cost:$150 per student (2 person minimum - groups of 4 or more - cost $125 per person)

Spartan Weekend Plus - This 4 day course includes everything in the Spartan Weekend plus knife care and sharpening, proper whet stone use, and basic survival weapon selection and marksmanship. The student will be trained in proper survival shooting fundamentals including sight picture, sight alignment, proper breathing technique, trigger depression and shot follow through. Basic rifle-craft will also be covered. The course will culminate with the student shooting a "for score" course of fire simulating targets from 100 to 400 yards. Even experienced shooters will increase their accuracy with this class!

Cost: $250 (2 person minimum - groups of 4 or more - cost $225 per person)

Winter Survival - This 24 hour course (Saturday morning through Sunday morning) takes the particpant beyond basic survival into the harsh world of deep winter survival at temperatures that can reach 30 below zero! The student will build his or her own shelter and set up for over-night winter living with no amenities whatsoever. This is not for the beginner! Each student is required to have snow shoes, a sled, and certify that they are in good enough physical shape to walk at least two miles in rough country. This course is usually conducted in February and is only done once each year, so get your slot reserved now!

Cost: $250 (4 person minimum - Groups of 5 or more - cost $225 per person)

Field Clothing

Depending on the time of year, each person should plan on having sturdy, field worthy clothing and a good set of boots (essential!) Rain gear of some type is a good idea during all but winter, and should you be participating in a winter class, specific recommendations will be made prior to your participation.

Goretex brand clothing is highly recommended for both waterproofing/shedding and wind deflection.

When registering, please ask any questions you may have on specfic clothing or other gear you may want to bring with you.

Area Lodging: Most courses are conducted on a Saturday starting at approximately 8:00 AM. For those driving from outside the Cheboygan area, we usually recommend arrival the night before and lodging at one of the local motels which are reasonably priced and very comfortable.

We recommend:

Fort Henry Motel

3025 East US Hwy 23, Cheboygan, MI 49721

(231)-627-7046

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