Tell him to join the Green Berets? ;-)<br><br>I suppose, as with any personal ad, it would help if you gave an indication what part of the country you're in. Even if the student is prepared to travel, a Wilderness Training School is likely to focus on what's available locally. A school in Northern Alberta is likely to have a very different slant than one in Nevada, fritz ample. What sort of "Wilderness Training" are you looking for?<br><br>I've never taken any formal survival training, even when I was in the military; what little I know of it is mostly self-taught through books and the Internet, with a little practical thrown in. I co-taught a course for a group of St. John Ambulance cadets, in part because the other instructor (a friend of mine) used to teach wilderness survival to the Canadian Navy and I figured it was a good chance to pick his brains. <br><br>As far as I know, the Outward Bound schools have a good reputation, but I don't know anything about them. <br><br>A guy named Larry Dean Olsen, who wrote "Outdoor Survival Skills" (I have the sixth edition) used to run a Wilderness Survival program at BYU in Provo, Utah. I don't know if they still run it. I'd be a little leery of this, despite Olsen's impressive qualifications; according to his book, he almost died on one of his own training exercises, and the other instructor who "saved his life" was in desperate need of First Aid training. (Among other things, she gave water to Olsen while he was unconscious - a huge no-no - and she continued forcing him to drink even though he was vomiting.) Realism is all very well, but the instructors should carry HF radios for emergencies.<br><br>People might have a better response to your request if you said what part of the country you're interested in, does he want to do it locally or travel and see some exotic part of the country, etc.<br><br>Another alternative is that you can volunteer to set one up for the Boy Scouts and teach it yourself. Sometimes that's the best way to learn the skills yourself; it was for me. (Another thing you may want to consider - A lot of formal survival courses are based on the "One man against the Wilderness" concept, and may teach little or nothing about group survival; the course I co-taught last year, almost by necessity, put the students together in groups chosen by lot and forced them to work as a team. )