# Event Details - **Event Name**: Free Foul-Weather Wilderness Survival Class - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 08 Nov, 2025 at 08:15 am – Sun, 09 Nov, 2025 at 05:00 pm - **Event Description**: 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 MacMullanCenter@Michigan.gov. ~ For walking-distance campsite and cabin reservations, contact North Higgins Lake State Park: https://www2.dnr.state.mi.us/parksandtrails/Details.aspx?id=478&type=SPRK&fbclid=IwY2xjawK9H6BleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFybmRlTGFVUlNIMmZqakYzAR7v9ulbXKv9QJ5YmmLbDdLV3zGZ9nISyrx1Sw4elSIRRn_nw4gCq-N5RMjt-Q_aem_7qNZVA4Q7X2Rj4stqO-bDw#overview • 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 > Warm clothing: synthetic or wool long underwear (1 pair pants, several shirts), insulated parka, insulated pants, insulated boots, mittens, warm hat, etc., for multi-hour outside portions of class — avoid cotton, if possible, as it the Devil’s Cloth when wet > Safety glasses for eye protection when processing firewood with fixed-blade knife (provided) and baton (improvised on-site); starting a fire with a metal scraper (provided), magnesium tinder rod (provided), petroleum-infused cotton balls (provided), and ferro rod (provided); and survival shelter construction > Leather gloves for hand protection when processing firewood, starting a fire, and survival shelter construction > Closed-cell sitting and kneeling pad for firewood processing and fire building on frozen, snowy, damp, or muddy ground > Daypack (lined with a water-proof garbage bag to keep contents dry) containing rain pants and jacket, extra warm clothing, snacks, water bottle, first-aid kit, survival kit, toilet paper in plastic bag, flashlight, extra battery, etc. (for use when we travel away from classroom area to build fires & survival shelters in woods). > Snow shovel in case the area receives enough snow for us to build snow shelters > Portable folding chair for field portions of class (optional) > COVID-19 facemask (optional) > Hand sanitizer (optional) EQUIPMENT FOR OPTIONAL OVERNIGHT IN SURVIVAL SHELTER WITH INSTRUCTOR: If participants want to try spending a night in the instructor’s bush camp* (adjacent to vehicles) in either one of the brush huts or tarp shelters built during the class, they should also bring > One or two warm sleeping bags that will keep them warm down to 20° Fahrenheit, the average low temp in the Au Sabler State Forest for mid-November, in case they are not warm enough in their brush hut, of it they bivouac under a tarp > Two full-length, closed-cell-foam sleeping pads > A headlamp and small flashlight, with spare batteries for both > TWO 8- by 10-foot lightweight (standard-duty) PVC tarps ($5 to $10 each). One to rig as a lean-to or cover a leaky brush hut, and the other to protect the sleep system with half under the sleeping pad and bag as a ground cloth, and the other half over their sleeping bag if ground and vegetation is damp or snowy, or the wind is pushing mist or snow into shelter > 10, 8-foot-long pieces of 1/8-inch-diameter cordage for rigging lean-to * No camping is permitted within one mile of the RAM Center, so no tents, hammocks, or sleeping in vehicles is permitted, just the survival shelters associated with the class. A pit toilet is located at the nearby firearms range. EQUIPMENT FOR OPTIONAL 2-HOUR SATURDAY NIGHT LAND NAVIGATION COURSE WITH INSTRUCTOR: If participants of any skill level (instruction provided) want to practice navigating a small orienteering course at night, with an instructor, they should bring: > Safety glasses > A headlamp and small flashlight, with spare batteries for both > A pocket-sized note pad, or a few pieces of folded paper > A pencil > Night-nav-enabled compasses will be provided, or use your own if it has luminous features __________________ >> 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 mneiger@hotmail.com. — Michael Neiger, Marquette, Michigan, mneiger@hotmail.com, www.MibSAR.com • 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 #Survival #SurvivalSkills #WildernessSurvival #ColdWeatherSurvival #Navigation #LandNavigation #Compass #Map #ManTracking #Training #SAR #SearchAndRescue #EmergencyResponse #MissingPerson #LongTermMissing #LTM #ColdCase #TrueCrime #Murder #MissingInMichigan #Investigator #Detective #CrimeScene #Wilderness #Expedition #WinterCamping #BackPacking #SnowShoeing - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/roscommon/free-foul-weather-wilderness-survival-class/200028534958855 - **Event Categories**: workshops, trips-adventures, business, art, conferences, camping, literary-art, nonprofit - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 80 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200028534958855?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=roscommon-events ## Event venue details - **city**: Roscommon - **state**: MI - **country**: United States - **location**: Ralph A. 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