Forest Survival Course at Sainte-Colombe-sur-Seine, Burgundy

Activity Snapshot

Fitness level: Everybody welcome
Duration: 2 days
Spoken languages: English, French
Minimum age: From 16 years-old and up
Cancellation policy: strict More info
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Activity description

Come and surpass yourself during this forest survival course in Sainte-Colombe-sur-Seine in Côte d'Or, Burgundy.

This forest survival course in Sainte-Colombe-sur-Seine is a theoretical and practical approach that brings together several themes based on several teaching areas.

The training is essential to learn the right gestures, the right techniques to survive while waiting for help:
- Knowing how to build a survival shelter and why.
- Knowing how to make fire (several techniques studied).
- Finding water, assessing its potability, making it drinkable, storing it, drinking it.
- Orientation day and night, defining the 4 cardinal points.
- Learning how to feed oneself, edible wild berries, insects.
- Workshop on how to make a stretcher.

The aim of this 2-day workshop (with a night in a bivouac) is to give you the necessary knowledge to never fall into a survival situation.

Located in Burgundy,you will discover a magnificent biotope full of history.

At the same time you will discover the Côte d' Or in Burgundy.

Course of events

Day 1:
- 9H30 Appointment, welcome and briefing.
- 10H15 Basic principles to never fall into a survival situation.
- 12H00 Departure Hiking with observation of the fauna and flora (Picking of wild berries according to season, observation of animal tracks).
- 13H00 Learn how to make fire without a lighter.
- 15H00 Finding water and making it drinkable.
- 17H00 Arrival at the bivouac site and construction of the survival shelter, making fire, water, trapping.
- 20H00 Meal consisting of gathering and hunting (impression of the day).
- 23H00 Sleeping in the shelter.

Day 2:
- 8.00 am Wake up.
- 9.00 am Dismantling of the shelter and cleaning of the bivouac.
- 9.30 am Orientation (knowing how to read a map and find your bearings with a compass or the sun, itinerary with search for beacons).
- 11H00 Return to Ferme des 4 Bornes, debriefing with a review of the past 2 days. Snack.
- 12H00 Visit of the Polar Park (Sled Dogs) by Emmanuelle.
- 13H00 End of the course.

Activity requirements

Parental discharge from the age of 16

Do not forget to bring
  • Warm clothes
  • Sneakers
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Meeting point
Ferme des Quatre Bornes, 21400 Sainte-Colombe-sur-Seine Get directions

Cancellation policy

Cancellation 30 days or more prior to the agreed activity date
You will be automatically refunded for the full amount for the activity
30 days
Cancellation between 10 and 30 days prior to the agreed activity date
You are entitled to a 50% refund
10 days
Cancellation 10 days or later prior to the agreed activity date
No refund will be possible
Weather Guarantee
Regardless of the date, if the activity is cancelled due to bad weather conditions, you will be offered a refund or the chance to reschedule