Primitive Skills

I urge you to take primitive skills classes. Learn to make cord out of plant fiber. Learn to identify edible and useful local plants. Learn to make fire with sticks and stones. Become proficient at making shelters. These skills are enormously fun and useful. They are the baseline for all survival skills, IMHO. You can go online and find schools all over the United States that will teach you these things. I have taken courses at Headwaters Outdoor School, in both Shasta and Santa Cruz. Those were wonderful experiences. There is also a school in Northern Arizona called Ancient Pathways that I would like to check out. It offers walkabouts in the wilds of Bluff, Utah: http://apathways.com/