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Become a Wildcard and Be Wilderness Ready
Wildcard Wilderness is a traveling survival school and gear shop founded by Jacks Genega.
Often in the Southeast and Mountain West regions of the United States, Wildcard Wilderness works closely with with several cooperatives including Georgia Bushcraft, Primitive Wilderness Survival, Wildkind Outdoors, and The Survival University.
The company sells and designs exclusive products and swag including foraging tools and fire kits with self-defense features.
Outdoor Skills and Products You Can Bet Your Life On
Wildcard Wilderness offers both survival classes and gear that prepare you to face the cards nature dealt.
Why Choose Us?
- Training That Transforms: From advanced life-saving knowledge to medicinal plant workshops, we build confidence in hiking, homesteading, or facing an emergency.
- Resilience Through Self-Reliance: Learning how to find water, build shelter, and navigate harsh environments can create a path towards empowerment and agency.
- Supportive Learning Environment: Our courses are all inclusive with female-led instruction, women only options, and expeditions that apply real world scenario training.
- Experienced Instructors: Jacks Genega is a seasoned adventurer with a formal education from numerous leading experts.
- Designs That Defend: We believe that gear should be multi-functional and should provide protection from precipitation to predators.
TRAINING THAT TRANSFORMS
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BUILD RESILIENCE THROUGH SELF-RELIANCE
Beat the Odds with Essential Wilderness Skills Training
Wildcard Wilderness offers multiple pathways to learning outdoor skills with Survival Leadership Training, Wilderness Lifestyle Courses, and Adventure Readiness Learning.
Where would you like to begin?
- Survival Leadership: Training focused on survival priorities such as fire starting, shelter building, water filtration, food procurement, self-aid and self-rescue.
- Wilderness Lifestyle: Courses in specific nature immersion topics such as medicinal plants and building a community bushcraft basecamp.
- Adventure Readiness: Learning survival preparedness techniques on a guided trek through the remote wilderness.
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Basecamp Essentials
$395.00
Unit price perBasecamp Essentials is a course that is designed to promote a sense of wilderness living with others and beyond our basic needs of survival. Students will learn how to build varying means of comfort entirely off the landscape including benches, chairs, and beds. As a class, we will learn how to build instruments such as mallets, sawhorses, and vices and how they can aid in processing fuel and other materials. Other topics will include plant and tree identification, firecraft, cutting tool safety, food procurement and preservation, camp maintenance, simple pioneering as well as several different knots, notches and lashings on top of some handcrafted projects at the end of the course. Students will walk away with the knowledge of how to construct a basecamp to share in a community or as individuals in the wild.
Course Project Examples: Creating grass mats with a woodland loom, vices, sawbuck, bucksaw, mallet, dakota fire, tripod smoker, ground refrigerator, brooms, rakes, chairs, spatula, spoon, benches, rope beds, ladders, wash area, utilizing wood ash for hygiene, making a torch from Pine Tar
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SUPPORTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Win the Wilderness with Women's Survival Classes and Other Intensives
Wildcard Wilderness provides unique learning opportunities beyond other traditional methods of training.
What requirements do you need?
From customized courses for all skill levels and demograpics; students will have a transformative experience that builds resilience and a taste for adventure.
Join an expedition to gain real-world experience.
Discover courses for women led by women.
Gain practical skills from professional instructors.
"Jacks is a great instructor with a true passion for her craft!"
ETHNOBOTANY 101 was a great resource for broadening my knowledge of the pharmacy we have growing all around us.
JOHN G
"Jacks is a very knowledgeable and patient teacher!"
Navigation 101 with Jacks was more than a class on navigating, it was a class on confidence building and applying it. She made every part of this class fun and interesting. I would not hesitate to recommend or even to take the course again.
Bowdier S
"I will definitely be taking another class with Jacks!"
No words are adequate enough to express how illuminating this class was. My admiration, warmth, and inspiration for Jacks is beyond measure. I love her spirit and passion!
Kim D
EXPERIENCED INSTRUCTORS
Learn From Us and Don't Gamble Your Education
Jaclyn "Jacks" Genega, Founder and Lead Instructor, of Wildcard Wilderness has a vast experience in adventure and survival training having solo trekked part of the world’s most remote and rugged terrains.
Who would you trust to guide your skill development?
“Sometimes in nature, like in life, you get dealt a bad hand. But by learning critical survival skills and leaning into curiosities, one can become a wildcard and discover the unexpected within. The wilderness provides a sense of belonging and place unlike our constant struggle to conform to societal norms. My goal is to create a sense of resilience through self-reliance. Skills in fire, navigation, bushcraft, and plant medicine all have the power to change people's perceptions of what they are truly capable of and become the hero of their own journey."
- Jacks Genega
Founder and Lead Instructor of Wildcard Wilderness LLC
DESIGNS THAT DEFEND
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