What’s so great about learning in the “great outdoors”?
At Mountain Shepherd, we believe each person, regardless of life experience, can learn to navigate the outdoors and respond to unexpected challenges. We also agree that learning outdoors, about anything, and even shifting activities typically done indoors out to a...
Time in the Wild
GEMS camp explores the connections between learning survival skills and learning to lead. by Beth JoJack ’98 If Allie Mitchem ever finds herself among the cast of TV’s Survivor, she’s certain to be in high demand as an alliance partner—even at the tender age of 13....
What’s so great about learning the “great outdoors”?
At Mountain Shepherd, we believe each person, regardless of life experience, can learn to navigate the outdoors and respond to unexpected challenges. We also agree that learning outdoors, about anything, and even shifting activities typically done indoors out to a...
Middle school girls learn survival skills, confidence at camp
Posted on The Roanoke Times: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 4:45 pm By Kylee Sapp kylee.sapp@roanoke.com 981-3435 During their last hike of the week, four middle school girls showed off their survival skills when they came across a small “crashed” plane and one of their...
Meet the GEMS creators
Dina Bennett Interests: Hiking Learning Teaching Traveling Creating new experiences Quilting (aka mastering the art of imperfection) Dogs – All but most important to my heart are Holly, Scout, Levi and Riley Music Slacklining/Unicycling – brand new and somewhat scary...
Situational Awareness – Be vigilant to Survive
The madness continues. Reports of horrfic acts of violent terrorism, on foreign soil and in our back yards, clog our airwaves and news feeds. This constant bombardment of fear based news achieves its goal, it sparks fear. Some cancel or postpone trips. Others avoid...
Worth the cost of the course!
Reggie, About two years ago my fiancee and I took the survival 101 course. The course was great we both learned a lot. I thought it was worth the cost of the course just to learn how to build a fire. That was until this weekend. My 11-year-old future stepson,...
Cast a vote to emPOWER women!
Mountain Shepherd Survival School is applying for a grant to provided a unique and personal interactive learning experience for high school junior/senior girls to reflect on their leadership style, educational life and personal lives. By learning the Seven Priorities...
Thank you for visiting!
Thank you for visiting Mountain Shepherd Survival School’s website! We know you have options and we appreciate the time you are investing to learn about our school. As you research check credentials and background when evaluating survival schools and...
Mountain Shepherd students are Top Notch!
Best selling author Michael Koryta attended a Humble Thunder course a couple years back. Read about what he learned about survival in his latest thriller “Those Who Wish Me Dead”. Roanoke Times columnist Dan Casey enjoyed the book so much he interviewed Reggie...
Travel Safe Training course featured on Examiner.com
Every adventure traveler knows that there’s a chance for danger when they take a trip. But not everyone knows what they should do if they suddenly find themselves in peril.
Mountain Shepherd partners with Rocky S2V
Everyone at Mountain Shepherd is really excited about our new partnership with Rocky S2V.
Survival training isn’t just for the woods
One of the biggest misconceptions about wilderness survival training is that it only applies to the woods. But it can come in handy anywhere
Mountain Shepherd student applies evasion training to real-life situation
Survival training isn’t only for the woods. Just ask Nancy Gessner, who woke up one recent morning to find someone trying to break in to her home.
Reggie talks low-tech, high-tech survival with ‘The Future is Now’
Mountain Shepherd’s own Reggie Bennett is featured in a new episode of “The Future is Now” by Yahoo! News. “So, what if the future really was now, and the zombies and vampires attacked, or the aliens invaded, or worse yet Mountain Shepherd’s own Reggie Bennett is...