The Relative (E=mc²) Wilderness School

Course Selections

1)      Feather Sticks

2)      5 Man-made Tinders

a.       Wet-fire

b.      Steel Wool

c.       PJ Cotton-balls

d.      Jute

e.       Waxed Paper

f.       Dryer Lint

g.      Char Cloth

h.      Alcohol Prep Pad

i.        Magnesium

j.        Ferrocerium Rod

k.      Heet/Alcohol

3)      Twig Fire

4)      Knots

a.       Two Half-hitches

b.      Sheet Bend / Double

c.       Figure Eight Knot

d.      Figure Eight on a Bite

e.       Overhand Loop

f.       Taut Line Hitch

g.      Bowline

h.      Running Bowline

i.        Reef Knot

j.        Surgeons Knot

k.      Prusik Knot

l.        Power Cinch

m.    Siberian Hitch

n.      Clove Hitch

o.      Timber Hitch

p.      Honda Knot

q.      Fisherman’s Knot

r.        Manharness Hitch

5)      Improvise a Metal Cooking Implement

6)      Knife Sharpening

a.       Lansky System

b.      Smith’s Diamond Stone

7)      2 Strand-Twist Cordage

8)      Braiding Man-Made Materials

9)      Simple Tarp Set-up

10)  Simple Snare

11)  Tree Identification & Uses

12)  Making & Cooking Bannock

13)  Making Pot Hook

Required for Intermediate Certification

1)      Hand Sewn Ditty Bag

2)      5 Natural Tinders with Fire Steel

a.       Birch Bark

b.      Wood Scrapings

c.       Dry Grass

d.      Cedar Shavings

e.       Cattail

f.       Thistles

g.      Milkweed

h.      Feather Sticks

i.        Tinder Fungus

3)      Make a Splitwood Fire

4)      Cook Over a Fire

a.       Wooden Tripod

b.      Wooden Pot-holder

5)      Lashings

a.       Square

b.      Diagonal

c.       Round

d.      Shear

6)      ID 3 Poisonous Plants

a.       Poison Ivey

b.      Poison Oak

c.       ?

7)      Make an Insulated Bed

8)      Make an Improvised Saw

Course Electives

1)      Twig Bundle Fire

2)      Making a PSK

a.       Altoid Tin/Surplus Pouch

b.      Razor Blade/Knife

c.       Snare Wire

d.      Cordage (550 Innards)

e.       Gauze

f.       Alcohol Prep Pads

g.      Button Compass

h.      H₂0 Purification Tabs

i.        Tea/Bouillon/Sugar/Salt

j.        Ferrocerium Rod

k.      Jute/PJ Cotton/Wet Fire

l.        Cake Candle

m.    Garbage / Zip-Lock Bag

n.      Tin Foil

o.      Duct Tape CC

p.      Fishing Kit

3)      Whipping Rope and Tool Handles

4)      Make a Ridge Line

5)      Make a FAK

6)      Flint & Steel with Char Cloth

7)      Paracord Bracelet

a.       Solomon Bar

b.      King Cobra

8)      Improvise Flint & Steel Striker

9)      Lanyards

Self Initiated Bushcraft Projects

1)      Olive Oil Lamp

2)      Hammock Bug Netting

3)      Mess Kit Cozies

4)      Altoids Alcohol Stove

5)      Handmade Buck Saw