Survival Kits
quiz shelter fire signaling about the instructor
netting
Here's Gene with other Survival enthusiasts
Welcome to the Survival and Outdoor Safety web site. Starting this month, I will take you pictorially, step-by-step, through the art of creating fire by friction. In upcoming months, I will show you how to construct shelters that, I believe, are the best survival shelters that I have come across in my 33 years in the business. I will teach you how to  make water in the desert, and, I will teach you how to make an incredibly powerful and versatile slingshot, and much more... 
Take The Survival Quiz!
Create Your Own Survival Kit!
Basic SOS Skills
The piece with the holes in it is called a fireboard. Take a closer look!
Tom Hanks' character in  CAST AWAY showed the excitement most people experience when they create their first friction-fire. I will show you step-by-step how to learn this ancient skill.
Tutorial began in August: 16 detailed pages of bowdrill instruction containing over 90 pictures to guide you to success in this primitive skill. Click on the icon to the left to begin
see the survival shelter close up!
You will learn how to build shelters that will protect you better than a manufactured tent.
Tutorial begins in September.  Click the icon on the left to begin.
See the emergency shelter close up!
Be Seen! Get Found!
Reach out and touch someone.
Smoke and mirrors will draw attention to the you even in some of the most remote regions on the planet.
October
Advanced SOS Skills
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I will show you, picture-by-picture, how to make netting the Pomo Indian way. Norm Kidder of the East Bay Regional Park District taught me this skill when I was teaching SOS in the Bay Area of California. Also, I will demonstrate different techniques of making cordage from plant fibres. November
Find out more about Gene!
Hi, I'm Gene Ward. I will be your instructor and guide on this instructional website.
Ruth and I are currently making instructional videos which, hopefully will be ready for you by next year.
E-mail me at the address below. I need your feedback.

gene@survivalandoutdoorsafety.com
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