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CON 253 - Survival Skills

This course will provide the student with extensive opportunity to learn and practice survival skills including identification, collection and preparation of edible wild plants; survival fishing, hunting, and trapping techniques (in accordance with New York State Fish and Game Law); construction of shelters, fire building skills, and other practices appropriate in a survival situation. For the first three days, instruction will occur on-site in the Bristol Hills; for the last four days, students will, in groups of two, be expected to provide themselves with protection and food entirely from the natural surroundings. Prerequisite: PE 252 camp or permission of the instructor. (Participants must be in good health and willing to sustain physical exertion. It is understood that students may not register for other courses for the duration of this course.) Prerequisite: Take PE-252;