For KISAR’s March training, we partnered with Casey and Bryan of the Kodiak Survival School to work on bushcraft, emergency shelter building, and signaling. It was an intensive 2.5 day course starting with indoor presentations and practical skill building at Bayside Fire Hall on Friday. On Saturday we drove out to White Sands in Monashka Bay and explored different shelter construction techniques starting with minimalist tarps we had brought and then moving up through more robust improvised structures with better weather resistance and longevity. We practiced fire fuel collection on the landscape and worked on our fire starting. KISAR members spent the night in the structure we had constructed with no additional gear than our clothing and a ground cloth, maintaining a small fire through the night for modest warmth. The next day we build ‘smoke generators’ for rapid visual smoke signaling, and then deconstructed the shelters to minimize our impact on the area before heading back to town.