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Austere Environment Survival Series: Urban Avalanche Train-Up

$550.00

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 Urban Avalanche Train up is a practical training exercise designed to teach and prepare you for the full Avalanche Experience.  This course differs from the standard Avalanche Train up buy mixing in a Urban environment.  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.  Based on tasks and evolving scenario, you will be moving between both a wooded and a built-up environment day and night. 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.