Wilderness Adventure Camp: Essential Outdoor Survival Skills for Kids

Table of Contents:
Welcome to Wilderness Survival
1: Get Ready for Adventure
Clothing
First-Aid Kit
Survival Kit
2: Must-Have Skills
Finding Your Way
Lost-Proofing
Using Your Compass
Measuring Distance
If You're Lost, Don't Lose It
Using a Knife
Knife Safety Contract
Get a Grip
Sharpening Your Knife
The Art of Carving
Learning Knife Skills
Building a Fire
Safety First
Dig a FIrepit
Make a Kindling Bundle
Strike It Right
Lighting a Fire
Extinguishing a Fire
Tying Knots
Must-Know Knots
Rope Storage
3: Setting Up Camp
Choose Your Location
Organize Your Camp
Setting Up a Safe Kitchen
The Art of Shelter
A-Frame Tarp Shelter
Debris Hut
You Need a Bathroom
4: Camp Craft
From Stick to Staff
Feather Stick
Wooden Spoon
Tongs
Cordage Making
Camouflage
5: Nourishment
The Importance of Water
Harvesting Water
Purifying Water
Campfire Cooking and Baking
Foraging (aka Wild Edibles)
Additional Reading
Index

Review Quotes:
"For young people and the rest of us, here's a hands-on antidote for nature-deficit disorder." --
Richard Louv, author of Our Wild Calling and Last Child in the Woods

Contributor Bio:Grindrod, Frank

Frank Grindrod is a wilderness survival instructor, a public speaker, and an expedition leader who has been featured on ABC's Chronicle, as well as on MassLive and other local New England TV and radio. He has led trips in Alaska, the Rocky Mountains, and the Florida Everglades. He has also been an adjunct faculty member at Smith College and the University of Georgia, where he taught wilderness survival courses. Grindrod is the owner of Earthwork Programs in New England and, over the last 20 years, he has trained thousands of people to become more capable in the wild.