O.W.L.S.
Outdoorsy Women Learning Survival Skills
September 11th - 17th
Women’s Beginner Backpacker and Survival Course
September 20th - 22th
Women’s Weekend Survival Course
Come learn and hone some outdoor skills in beautiful southwestern New Mexico! You will spend beautiful nights camping under the stars, light hiking, and most importantly learning and practicing tangible survival skills while also taking time to breath and connect with other like-minded women in this rich landscape.
Women’s Beginner
Backing Course
September 11th - 17th
Location
Hermosa, NM
September 20th - 22th
Location
Caballo, NM
Survive a wilderness emergency by learning critical skills like:
Natural navigation techniques
Basic knot, shelter, and fire craft
Methods to procure and disinfect water
The edibility test for plants
Knife sharpening and handling
Signaling methods to help rescue find you quickly
Survival kit design and use
Ways calm our mind and body so we can think rationally in an emergency
Leave no trace and stealth principles to avoid humans when you choose to
Deepen your bond and ability to listen and connect to nature
Spend nights camping with like minded women, sharing, laughing and supporting one-another
Eat tasty healthy dinners you didn’t have to prepare!
Why Participate?
We will unplug from the distractions, stress, and never ending to-do lists present in our “normal” lives. Take a deep breath, lift your head and look around. See engaged and friendly faces around you, excited to learn, be, and grow. A living, dynamic world around to watch, and explore. Learn skills that are stimulating and empowering as well as useful in a variety of ways, in the wilderness, and many back at home as well. Ready for some personal growth that doesn’t require tragedy? Then let’s go!
This is an all-camping program, but no previous wilderness experience is required. We welcome a sense of adventure, curiosity, and enthusiasm.
Your Instructor
Jessie Krebbs
Jessie joined the US Air Force at 18 both as a way to pay for college and to escape the small town, midwest blues. What she got in addition was a sense of competence and a deeper connection to the outdoors. She had survived her own childhood trauma through the support of the natural world: the wilderness was a familiar and safe place that held her when the humans around her could not be trusted. She went from a shy girl to one of the few female S.E.R.E. Specialists (survival, evasion, resistance, and escape), teaching military members how to stay alive and return home if they were shot down behind enemy lines. After an honorable discharge she went on to direct team building courses, guide outdoor activities, and work for over a decade in wilderness therapy.
She is now the founder of O.W.L.S. Skills where one of her primary goals is to educate and empower women and other underrepresented demographics in the skills of surviving emergency situations in global wilderness environments. She hopes by helping people feel safer in wild places they will connect with and enjoy it more, and thus be willing to protect and defend it and its denizens.
