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• Survival 101 at REI Winter Park

  • When
    03/08/2026
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    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    REI Winter Park, 430 N. Orlando Ave. Winter Park, FL

  Survival 101 is a basic class that could save your life. It covers the two essentials of survival — staying warm and staying dry and how to do this in the harshest of environments. You will learn about finding food and water, building shelters, how to build and start fires, navigating without a compass and much more. The class is run by Don Philpott, who has taught survival techniques for more than 50 years. He has expeditioned, backpacked, climbed, canoed and ridden through Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, the Artic, Australia and New Zealand. He has written several books on the survival, security and safety.

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• Heritage Festival | America 250

  • Start
    03/21/2026
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    10:00 AM
  • End
    03/22/2026
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    4:00 PM

  The East Lake Historical Society and Wekiva Wilderness Trust invite you to join us for a Heritage Festival at Rock Springs Run State Reserve in Sorrento, March 21 & 22. This FREE 2-day event features exhibitors, arts and craft vendors, and reenactors who will demonstrate what life was like back when the town of Ethel was a thriving township (the late 1800s). Visitors will enjoy live music, entertainment, children’s games, and more. Festival food will be available for purchase.
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• Survival Boot Camp

  • When
    04/04/2026
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    9:30 AM - 3:30 PM

  The Wekiva Wilderness Trust is holding its next basic survival boot camp on Saturday, April 4, from 9:30 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. at Rock Springs Run State Reserve in Sorrento, off State Road 46.

  The course has been designed so that everyone knows what to do in case of an emergency. All the techniques are vital skills to use in the great outdoors. The boot camp will cover survival techniques, field first aid, foraging for food and water, hands-on building a shelter, plus rope, and basket weaving from natural materials, fire lighting techniques, and navigation.

  Apart from water, bug spray, sunscreen, and lunch, each participant is asked to bring a knife, about 20 feet of strong string, cord, or similar, and two large black garbage bags.

  The cost for the workshop is $10 a person (a donation to WWT) which will be collected on the day - cash only.

  If you have questions, email: info@wwt-cso.com

  The entrance to Rock Springs Run State Reserve is off Wekiva River Road, which runs south from SR 46. Do not put in the name of the park, rather the address: 31515 Wekiva River Road, or search "Wekiva Falls" which is down the street (and you'll see the Park on your left).

  
  

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