Austere Environment Survival Series: Avalanche Train-Up
Austere Environment Survival Series: Avalanche Train-Up
The Lodestone Training and Consulting Austere Environment Survival Series will help you learn skills and techniques that could help save your life. You never know when you might find yourself in a situation you hadn’t planned for and there is no help on the way. Whether it’s primitive skills needed to survive in the wilderness, or techniques to maneuver in a non-permissive urban environment, this series will help you be prepared. There are some things you can’t learn from a book or playing a video game, they have to be experienced.
The Avalanche Train up is a practical training exercise designed to teach and prepare you for the full Avalanche Experience. You will spend the entire time in a small group lead by one of the LTAC cadre as you go about the tasks and objectives of this training exercise. This class uses many of the skills that are taught by LTAC and is not intended for those without a basic understanding of Land Nav, Wilderness Skills, Cache and recovery, and Communications skills to name a few.
Day One - Arrive at training site. We will start in the classroom for a short brief. Each student’s equipment will then be inspected by a member of the LTAC cadre. After the inspection and repacking, all student cell phones will be turned into the cadre until the end of the exercise. Students will be organized into small groups with an LTAC instructor to lead. The group will be placed at a specific location on the training site. The group will then need to accomplish tasks and move to their overnight rest site without being observed by anyone.
Day Two - While avoiding an active, mounted and dismounted threat, the group will have a list of tasks and locations to travel to. They must remain undetected by the active threats and the other training groups. Students will put in a cache as well as recover one during the day. Only by working together will you remain safe and accomplish all you need to.
We will wrap the class the evening of Day Two by holding a detailed AAR while grilling dinner.
This class isn’t one to read about, it’s one to experience. You will put miles on your feet, day and night, over various terrain. It will help prepare you for the 3-day Avalanche Exercise and the real world.
Class Details
Instructor: Retired Green Berets
Class Length: 2 days
Time: 9am
Type: Outdoor, Survival, Land Nav, Small Unit Tactics
Audience: Everyone
Prerequisites: None (but these will help: Land Nav training, Wilderness Skills, Cache, SUT)
What to Bring:
1. Pen and Paper for notes
2. Weather appropriate, comfortable clothing for movement through wooded areas, to include sturdy shoes or boots
3. Any personal items needed
4. Your 72-hour kit
5. Drinking water for 24 hours
6. Water purification (tabs, straw, filter - you will be resupplying your own water.)
7. Rifle/mags
8. NO AMMUNITION
9. Carrying system for gear
10. Backpack
11. Sleeping bag or sleep system
12. Flashlight
Students will receive a detailed gear list and more information specific to the class.
Topics include:
1. Working and moving as a buddy team in an Austere Environment
2. Working and moving as a group in an Austere Environment
3. Water procurement
4. Cache placement and recovery
5. Land Navigation
6. Recon
7. Security
8. Communications
9. Small Unit Tactics
10. Wilderness Skills
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PLEASE NOTE: If you need to purchase ammo, a good resource is AmmoSupplyWarehouse.com. Let them know you are taking a class with the LTAC. They can ship it to us, and we will have it available on the day of the class, or they can ship it to you. If you would like to have it shipped to us, please provide at least 7 days for it to arrive and be processed.
