Our local open spaces are designed to be safe for everyone, from the casual walker to the experienced hiker. So it’s usually easy to avoid these situations completely by staying on trail, planning ahead, and taking on only as much exploring as you can handle. However, things can sometimes go wrong, especially for those who like to head deep into natural lands and wilderness areas. Each year, out of the hundreds of thousands of guests who safely visit natural parks and open spaces, a few people find themselves alone, lost, injured or a combination of the above and unable to immediately contact help.
Jack Harrison is an outdoor educator, survival expert and ancestral life ways instructor based in Santa Cruz. Jack works with to train members of the public, as well as a variety of emergency response professionals, in how to respond to a variety of wilderness and outdoor related emergency scenarios. Jack’s lifelong passion is connecting people to the outdoors, as well as teaching and studying wildlife tracking, bushcraft, and other ancestral life skills through his own private lessons as well as through his role as Head Survival Instructor and Program Director at Adventure Out.
This event is part of POST’s community event series, which is open to the general public as well as POST donors. We hope you’ll join us! We also curate a separate series of private events for our donors. Learn how you can support POST here: openspacetrust.org/support-post
