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Welcome to Serious Outdoor Skills

Serious Outdoor Skills is all about developing your knowledge of survival, bushcraft and wilderness skills. Our courses and sessions are aimed at catering for all your outdoor needs whilst delivering professional, informative and fun tuition. We also believe that a hands on experience is the best way to learn so prepare to get stuck in. Our expert instructors have countless years of outdoor experience ensuring that you get the most out of your visit.

SOS offers a wide range of courses from our stunning sites in Devon and Cornwall, varying from one day foraging,to five day advanced survival and bushcraft courses. We provide to suit all abilities, from complete beginners to the more experienced.

We welcome all groups including stag and hen parties, school and youth groups. Corporate events, business team bonding days and private bookings are also catered for.

The fire steel

Be confident on your own outdoor adventure, come and learn some essential wilderness skills

Alliaria petiolata

Jack by the hedge

The Swedish fire stove

Learn some new and exciting outdoor skills

Traps, Snares and Game prep Course

Our one day course run for Natural Bushcraft & friends

Making a signal fire

Just one of the skills you will learn on our survival weekend course

Foraging

Try our spring foraging course

Traps Snares and Deadfalls

Learn how to trap and snare on our specialist course

Tracking Courses

Man and Animal tracking

DD TARPS

In store now

Rabbit Stew

Made on our weekend survival and bushcraft course

Shelter Building

At Gulley Wood, Devon

Friction fire lighting

Learn how to make fire by friction

The Mora Fire Knife

Mora Knives in store now.

All of our team here at Serious Outdoor Skills aim to please and we take great pride in our teaching style. You won’t be bored with lectures as every session we teach will allow you to take an active part in. You will be learning practically and having to think for yourselves rather than just sitting down and listening to us.

So come along and meet our team, make new friends and learn some great wilderness skills that could potentially be life saving. Come and learn in a fun, informative and exciting way, enjoy yourselves and hopefully we will see you soon.

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