Survival Tips For The Extreme Cold

There are but a few extreme conditions on this earth that are as punishing or worse than the extreme cold. Ice and snow bring hypothermia, frostbite, isolation from help and…

Winter Survival…Final Place remaining

Final place left on our scheduled winter courses 8th-10 of February. Join us for the ultimate winter survival course. Learn to navigate, move safely through a winter environment and spend…

BCS were asked to respond to a tragedy recently by the Sunday Post. A great argument for print being replaced by digital. Poor representation of what we said, along with…

Britains last true wilderness?

  This weekend saw the first opportunity to snow hole, winter is definitely here! Setting off from the ski car park at Cairngorm, we navigated up onto the Cairngorms plateau….

Christmas Vouchers

What better gift to buy a loved one than a voucher for one of our winter courses!   We offer a wide range of winter skills course including our 3…

Review of the Fjallraven Telemark jacket

Many thanks to our friends at Trailblazer Outdoors, that filmed this review at the tail end of our Fjallraven training event down in North Wales this summer. If your looking…

BCS Partners with SPOT Gen3

Backcountry are proud to announce that we have partnered up with SPOT Gen3 a company that produces the best and most versatile PLB (Personal Location Beacon) on the market.  We…

Snow on the Hills!

It’s that time of the year!  Anyone spending time on the mountains should be thinking about packing the following; Crampons Ice Axe Spare winter warm clothing Head Torches + Spare…

BCS 10 Year Anniversary Birthday Bash

BCS would like to invite previous clients and associates to our 10 year anniversary party on the 22nd and 23rd of March 2019.  The event will be held at a…

The Real Survival Experience

A short videos sent in from one of our clients on the morning of day 2 of our multi-environment Survival course.  Want authenticity when you book on with a Survival…

BCS on tour. Fjallraven shop training Southern.

Once again a big thankyou to all the shops that turned out to our first Southern training course for Fjallraven; Cotsolds, Tisos, Trekkit, Elis Brigin, Bushcraft Store, Taunton leisure, Crib…

First evolution of the LSI begins

 Well done to all attendees on the first module of the LSI (Land-based survival instructor) the award is an independently accredited qualification, through the Institute of outdoor learning, run…

Foraging Courses

It’s that time of the year again!  Autumn in our view is the most exciting season when it comes to wild foragables.  The berries are all on the go and…

New Filming Project

We’re getting pretty excited about our new filming project in collaboration with the guys over at SumoSurvival.  Each episode will be dedicated to Debunking some of the Survival myths that…

30% off Expedition Skills Courses

We’ve got a few places left on our Mountain and wild camping 3 Day Expedition course.  Usually this course comes in at £360, we’re giving it away for £250. Still…

Survival Science: Potassium Permanganate and Vape fluid

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Backcountry Survival (@backcountry_survival) Potassium Permanaganate (KMnO4) is one of the best Survival chemicals you can carry about with you. It has the…

Which woods for friction fire?

In this blog we will be dealing with wood choice, identification and selection for friction fire.  Friction-fire technique will be covered in the next blog.     As the season…

10 Amazing Facts about Mushrooms

Getting psyced for the mushroom season here at BCS! Please be aware that there’s no rule of thumb when coming to identification of Fungi.  Make sure you pick them with someone that know what…

Final place for 2018 – Land Based Survival Instructor

We have 1 place left out of 8 on our Land-based Survival Instructor Award (independently accredited by the IOL) starting this August and running for 12 months. The award modules…

SumoSurvival #118 Weather forecasting

Thanks to Si and our friends Sumo Survival for having us on episode 118 of their podcast. Neil gobs off for half an hour on #synoptics #weather fronts and #cloud…