Survival Training – Millionaire Style
After reflecting upon the survival topics of recent blog articles, I realized that there seems to be no obvious option in the marketplace to prepare millionaires for that EOTWAWKI scenario. While the current market is loaded with luxury underground bunkers and backpacks with water purifiers, what about learning some real-world skills? Does anyone offer a survival audit to see if your doomsday plan is up to snuff?
Today on Rob Raskins’ Millionaire Survivalist, we’ll discuss a survival camp that offered to train today’s millionaires for the apocalypse while still offering the luxury of a resort vacation.
Luxury Survival Camp
According to an article in the July 2013 issue of Men’s Journal, there was once an option to attend a week-long training camp at Canyon Ranch, a luxury resort in Tucson, AZ. Led by survivalist Randy Kinkade, the instruction centered on practical skills, such as situational awareness and resourcefulness in a natural setting. While there are/were many such programs around the country, only this one offered the gourmet food and full-service spa, along with the other opulent amenities of a world-class resort.
Analysis
While on the surface, this offering could seem laughable to many rough-and-tumble survivalists, this hybrid program was also the only luxury resort vacation that offered a hands-on survival training camp with practical skills and outdoor adventures. So, it seemed to be the best of both worlds and an excellent way for a family to enjoy a luxury vacation, outdoor adventure, and learn some practical survival skills.
The resort’s travel package offered two programs:
1. The regular classes built into this package offered the following:
- Instructor Randy’s guided hiking and biking tours along 50 trails and 20 high-altitude trails (2 – 9,000 feet) in the Santa Catalina Mountains.
- Fire-building with a drill stick, fiberboard, and tinder gathered locally
- The chance to face the frustration of fear that leads to self-doubt in a crisis situation so that a proper plan could be executed in a clutch moment
2. Primitive Outdoor Skills Package twice a year that also included:
- Hoko-style knife made from stone, sticks, and yucca fibers.
- Tracking and observational skills to avoid getting lost in nature
- Hunting with rustic weaponry
- How to improvise in the wild with nothing, Bear Grylls style.
Additionally, these guided tours include transportation to and from the trailhead, backpacks, water, snacks, bikes, helmets, and access to monkey ropes, so vacationers can cut loose in the wild.
At $3,030 per person, the all-inclusive travel package offered a four-night stay at the luxury resort, including dining, spa, entertainment, and transportation to and from the Tucson Airport. Unfortunately, this package is no longer offered at the Canyon Ranch Resort in Tucson, and Randy Kinkade appears MIA.
To read more from the original article, click here:
https://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/the-luxury-survival-school-20130723/