FREE FOUL-WEATHER WILDERNESS SURVIVAL CLASS >> November 8-9, 2025 (Roscommon, Michigan • Crawford County • Northern Lower Peninsula): Taught by Team MibSAR’s Long Range Special Operations Group (LRSOG) instructor cadre, this ADULTS-ONLY class will be held at the Michigan DNR’s spotless, state-of-the-art, Ralph A. MacMullan (RAM) Conference Center in the Education Building, Lower Level Conference Room, 104 Conservation Drive, Roscommon, Michigan www.Michigan.gov/RAMcenter
>> TO RESERVE A SPOT IN THIS FREE CLASS, click GOING on this Facebook event page
>> CLASS CURRICULUM: This 50% classroom, 50% dirt-time class will help you learn -- or hone -- several essential foul-weather survival skills, including:
• Edible-medicinal plant/tree identification (4 hours): after classroom discussion, you’ll search for edibles/medicinals in the bush with a guide
• The world’s most useful knots for the outdoors (2 hours): hands-on knot-tying practice (participants must have two, six-foot lengths of 1/4-inch-diameter rope, different colors helpful)
• Water-repellent, heavily-insulated brush huts (4 hours): after classroom discussion, hands-on build in bush, plus optional Saturday-night bivouac in your own brush hut in SOG instructors’ bush camp (participants must have two, 55-gallon contractor grade garbage bags)
• Wet-log fires without matches, saw, ax (4 hours): after classroom discussion, hands-on baton-splitting of logs into fuelwood, kindling, and tinder with bowie knife; ignition with magnesium tinder bar, ferro sparking rod, scraper/striker (participants must have gloves and safety glasses; all other equipment provided, or use your own)
• Night navigation (2 hours): optional all-in-the-bush, Saturday-night practice on compass course with guides (must have own compass, headlamp, safety glasses)
>> LODGING, MEALS, CAMPING, CABIN RENTALS:
~ For on-site room & BLD meal reservations, email the RAM Center at
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~ For walking-distance campsite and cabin reservations, contact North Higgins Lake State Park:
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• NOTE: No meals or lodging are provided by the organizer, Michael Neiger, during this class.
>> NO INSURANCE COVERAGE
• No insurance coverage is provided by the organizer, Michael Neiger, for this class. Participants are encouraged to consult with a trusted professional about the need for life, disability, medical, prescription, dental, eye, evacuation, class cancellation, automobile, etc., insurance coverage.
>> EQUIPMENT TO BRING (or team-up and share with a partner)
Will be posted as class approaches.
Thank you for your interest!
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>> TO SCHEDULE FREE SPECIAL OPERATIONS GROUP (SOG) TRAINING FOR YOUR TEAM – Foul-Weather Wilderness Survival, Map-and-Compass Land Navigation, Man-Tracking, or Strategies and Tactics for Search and Rescue Operations -- reach out to Michael Neiger at
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— Michael Neiger, Marquette, Michigan,
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• Det/Sgt (Ret.), 26 years: Michigan State Police (Manistique, Metro Detroit, Marquette)
• Lead Investigator & Instructor, 18 years: Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue’s (MibSAR) Long Range Special Operations Group (LRSOG), investigating cold-case murders and long-term-missing person cases in the bush from the Upper Great Lakes to Canada’s Arctic Ocean
• Crew Leader & SAR Tech I, National Association for Search & Rescue (NASAR)
• 7-time Dead-of-Winter Arctic Ocean Expedition Guide; 38-year Canadian Expedition Guide
• Author: Missing-Person Sourcebook for Families Searching for a Missing or Murdered Loved One
Member (or former member) of: International Homicide Investigators Association (IHIA), International Crime Scene Investigators Association (ICSIA), The National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR), International Society of Professional Trackers (ISPT), National Association of Law Enforcement Trackers (NALET)
As seen on Fox Nation, ABC’s 20/20, Discovery Plus, Chris Hansen’s Crime Watch Daily, A+E’s Crime (UK), TV Ontario, NBC’s Snapped; in Outside Magazine, Explore Magazine, Recoil Offgrid, Detroit Free Press, Society (Paris); and in the books Where Monsters Hide & The Cold Vanish
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