• Do you think you could survive with minimal tools and supplies in the Montana backcountry landscape?
  • Learn what it takes to be a survivalist by some of the industry's best with the Montana Vet Program
  • The Backcountry Immersion Program features training on how to be equipped with the essentials to survive

Learn Incredible Survival Techniques in the Montana Backcountry

It has been a few years since I have needed to wonder where my truck was after a hunting trip to Shonkin.  Or took a wrong trail while fishing for brookies in Upper Highwood Creek.

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But it doesn't mean that I would be comfortable having to survive for any amount of time in the backcountry wilds of Montana.  What if you had to, though?  Could you?

The Montana Veterans Backcountry Immersion Program for Survival

If you have ever yearned to see what Liver Eating Johnson had to do in order to survive, the Montana Veterans Backcountry Immersion Program is the forest to get lost in.

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You can learn not just essentials to survival in the wild but also learn to "conquer the wilderness with confidence."  The program features techniques such as:

  • shelter building
  • foraging
  • signaling
  • knot tying
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Learning More About the MT Vet Program and Signing Up

In Montana, the mission of the MT Vet Program is to provide "Veteran Led Therapeutic Adventure Trips (VLTAT) to our country's struggling veterans in order to promote healing through camaraderie, physical activity, adventure and tough-minded healing."

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To learn more about the program or to sign up for the Backcountry Immersion, find details and sign up information at their website here.

Montana Veterans Memorial

Montana Veterans Memorial

Gallery Credit: Randy Bogden

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