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RAT Jungle Training trip October 09

Joezilla

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I'm in...now I know I'm not going alone, any takers?

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Day 1: Travel from Iquitos to Nauta by road. Board boat and travel up the Amazon River to a base camp location on an Amazon tributary. Overnight and dinner prepared at camp.

Day 2: Instruction Day: Shelter Construction, Water Procurement, Machete Use, Fire Building. Food provided this day.

Day 3: Instruction Day: Jungle Navigation, Jungle Travel, Traps & Snares. Food provided this day.

Day 4: Leave base camp, head into primary jungle. Overnight in primary jungle and continue to learn skills. No food taken. Participants eat what they find in the jungle or what they catch by fishing.

Day 5: Continue into jungle and overnight, practicing navigation skills, water procurement and jungle travel skills. Continue to search for food.

Day 6: Return to river edge. Practice jungle signaling techniques. Build rafts. Float down river and meet base boat. Return to Nauta and RAT jungle property. Dinner at RAT jungle property.

Day 7: Return to Iquitos.
 
Oh man I wish I could go along. I'll be pinching pennies for a while before I can go but it's definitely on my list. Have a great trip man. We'll all be looking forward to hearing about it when you get back!
 
I wish I could make this one! But I will have to put it off till maybe next year. I am getting to go to the Woodland Ops in Alabama though. Have a great trip and take a ton of pictures!
 
I took the condensed version of this RAT course (downed pilot jungle survival course) with Jeff near Iquitos back in December, here's a link to the thread.

I highly recommend this course to anyone interested; Jeff, Mike, and their Peruvian crew really know their stuff!
 
Wish I could do something like that, but don't think I could lug in enough gin to keep me energized. Looks like a blast.
 
I may live in Southern Canada, but I'm a Northern Canuck at heart. There is nothing you can say that'll get me in a jungle.... Hot, humid, wet, sticky with the chance of getting bitten belongs in the bedroom... not outside. When it comes to outdoors, I want cold, bitter, icy, dry windy with a chance of catching a little beaver if you're lucky enough........... oh wait..... that describes indoors for me, too.... nevermind.


Rick
 
Magnussen said:
I may live in Southern Canada, but I'm a Northern Canuck at heart. There is nothing you can say that'll get me in a jungle.... Hot, humid, wet, sticky with the chance of getting bitten belongs in the bedroom... not outside. When it comes to outdoors, I want cold, bitter, icy, dry windy with a chance of catching a little beaver if you're lucky enough........... oh wait..... that describes indoors for me, too.... nevermind.


Rick
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As a Mainer your post resonates with me, too. :D That being said I would love to do one of Jeff and Mike's courses! Great guys who really know what they're talking about!

Too bad college and a pregnant fiancee make even the thought of it out of reach for now (though I wouldn't trade my current adventure for anything in the world!).
 
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