Six Months to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse » survival training https://www.zombieproject.net A Survival of the Fittest Program Sat, 26 Mar 2011 02:10:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Wilderness Survival Training https://www.zombieproject.net/2011/02/wilderness-survival-training/ https://www.zombieproject.net/2011/02/wilderness-survival-training/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:50:50 +0000 Diana http://www.zombieproject.net/?p=78 In the Santa Cruz mountains. Can’t think of a better place for it. These folks run a five hour class on surviving in the wild, as the native Americans might have. My guess is that they’ll be on the crunchy-granola side of things, but that’s fine by me. If the edible plants class we took up in Marin is anything to go by, they’ll be perfectly nice people. If a bit flakey.

Skills covered are:

  • Building Shelter
  • Making a Fire
  • Learning Edible Plants
  • Making Traps

The big question becomes when to do it.

]]> https://www.zombieproject.net/2011/02/wilderness-survival-training/feed/ 0 Living off the Land (sorta) https://www.zombieproject.net/2010/12/living-off-the-land-sorta/ https://www.zombieproject.net/2010/12/living-off-the-land-sorta/#comments Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:23:57 +0000 Diana http://www.zombieproject.net/?p=64 This looks incredibly cool: Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants.The rhetoric is a bit frou-frou-feel-good, but the actual lesson looks great. They take you around and show you which local plants are edible or medicinal, like the name says.

The next taster/intro class is February 6th, somewhere in the East Bay. I’m thinking this is a must. If the taster class works out, then maybe one of the weekenders. Or some of the other classes they have, like surviving in the wild.

That’s assuming they aren’t too frou-frou.

]]> https://www.zombieproject.net/2010/12/living-off-the-land-sorta/feed/ 0 The Plan https://www.zombieproject.net/2010/11/hello-world-2/ https://www.zombieproject.net/2010/11/hello-world-2/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 02:56:00 +0000 Diana http://www.dianasherman.com/zombieproject/?p=1 Because when the zombies attack, I want to survive.

I’m not saying the Zombie Apocalypse is happening in six months (I’m also not saying it’s not, because, really, who can predict zombies?). But I plan to be ready — within six months.

Which means learning the skills necessary to survive. Marksmanship? Absolutely. Cardio? Also a given. Learning how to forage supper from the land without accidentally getting gakked from eating lily of the valley? Probably.

The idea is to become bad-ass enough to survive the undead masses, fast enough to outrun the fast zombies, and agile enough to climb a tree (because zombies can’t climb – this is a universal truth).

Is it doable? I’d like to think so. You’re all invited to join me. Or cheer me on. Or laugh hysterically when I fall out of a tree and try to convince my boyfriend that we really need to raise chickens.

Tell me, what skills do you think are essential to surviving the Zombie Apocalypse?

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