Wilderness Survival PDF Series: Complete PDF Bundle (Parts One–Thirteen)

The Complete Wilderness Survival PDF Series — All 13 Parts in One Bundle

The Wilderness Survival PDF Series: Complete Bundle (Parts One–Thirteen) is a structured, 13-part digital training library covering every core survival skill in the GB2 curriculum. Created by Joshua Enyart — a former Army Ranger, Special Forces Green Beret, and full-time survival instructor — each guide delivers practical, field-tested instruction built around the same 8 Survival Priorities framework Joshua teaches in his live courses.

This is not a collection of tips pulled from the internet. Every guide in this series reflects the methodology Joshua has refined over decades of operating in austere environments and training civilians, military personnel, and wilderness professionals. The complete bundle covers the full curriculum: gear, fire, water, food procurement, shelter, knots, wilderness medicine, navigation, emergency signals, and tools.

What's Included — All 13 Parts

Part 1: Survival Gear and Kits

Covers the planning principles behind building a capable survival kit — not just what to carry, but how to think about gear selection. A key teaching is true redundancy: having multiple different types of ignition sources that perform under different conditions, rather than multiples of the same item. This part establishes the equipment foundation and the mindset the rest of the series builds on.

Part 2: Principles of Survival

Covers the mindset, priorities, and decision-making framework that determines whether a person survives or doesn't. Addresses the most common causes of wilderness emergencies and the preparedness mentality that turns potential emergencies into manageable inconveniences.

Part 3: Survival Fire Craft

Teaches fire through two foundational frameworks: the Fire Triangle (heat, fuel, and air in the correct proportions) and the Fire Train (the deliberate, sequential build from finest to coarser fuel — no shortcuts). Covers fire's utility across all survival priorities, from core temperature control and water purification to signaling. Includes fire kit design, ignition sources, tinder management, and fire lays.

Part 4: Essential Survival Knots

Step-by-step instruction for the knots that actually matter in survival and bushcraft — with application context for shelter building, trapping, and gear repair so you understand when each knot earns its place. Uses The Ashley Book of Knots as the baseline reference for terminology and usage.

Part 5: Survival Shelters

Covers the complete system for maintaining core body temperature — not just shelter structures, but the full picture. Starts with the principles of heat loss (conduction, convection, evaporation, radiation, respiration) and how understanding them shapes every decision. Covers the clothing layering system (wicking base, insulating, durable, and windproof/waterproof layers), bedding and sleeping solutions, cordage selection (bank line vs. paracord and why it matters), and natural and improvised shelter construction.

Part 6: Water Procurement

Covers water kit selection (single-wall metal containers for boiling capability), source identification, and all primary disinfection methods — commercial filtration, chemical treatment, and thermal disinfection. Includes the decision-making behind when to use each method and how pre-filtering improves all of them.

Part 7: Survival Trapping

Opens with the physiological and psychological effects of calorie deprivation — what happens to your body and decision-making within 24 hours without food — and builds the case for why food procurement is a genuine survival priority. Covers trap fundamentals: the need for calories, trap selection, placement, and construction for food procurement in the wilderness.

Part 8: Edible and Medicinal Plants

Teaches identification methodology rather than a memorized list — with the honest caveat that plant ID requires practice in the field, not just pictures in a book. Covers harvesting and preparation of wild plants for food and medicine, and explains why regional, seasonal, and site-access variables make this a lifelong study rather than a weekend course topic.

Part 9: Wilderness Medical Skills

A hybrid blend of personal medical experience structured for remote wilderness emergencies when EMS may be days away. Covers patient assessment, trauma management, environmental emergencies, and improvised treatment with the goal of sustaining life until more qualified personnel can take over. Does not certify anyone — teaches practical application under realistic wilderness conditions.

Part 10: Basic Map Reading

Covers the navigation kit baseline (compass selection, adjustable declination), topographic map anatomy and marginal data, scales, grids, and how to orient a map with a compass. The foundational map reading skills that Part 11 builds on.

Part 11: Land Navigation

Applies the map and compass skills from Part 10 to real movement in the field — plotting and following an azimuth, measuring distance, dead reckoning, and staying on course across terrain. Builds directly on the map reading foundation established in Part 10.

Part 12: Emergency Signals

Covers the signal kit (passive and active options for both day and night) and the principles behind maximizing visibility to rescuers. Includes ground-to-air panels, signal mirrors, fire and smoke, whistles, and strobes — with guidance on when to deploy each type. Also covers the pre-trip planning step that makes all signaling more effective: leaving a plan before you leave.

Part 13: Survival Knife and Tools

Covers knife selection in the context of the Survival Priorities — what a knife actually needs to do in the field, and what it doesn't. Addresses blade grind, length (3.5–4.5"), thickness, and tang. Covers the recommended tool kit: belt knife, folding saw, and multitool (SAK-style preferred over plier-style for most field tasks). The centerpiece of this part is the Try Stick — a teaching method Joshua learned from the legendary Mors Kochanski and has taught at every Wilderness Skills Course since. The Try Stick walks through a series of progressive knife techniques that build real, applicable bushcraft and survival skills.

Who This Bundle Is For

This series is built for anyone who wants a structured, curriculum-based approach to wilderness survival — not a collection of YouTube clips or tips pulled from scattered sources. It works for preppers and self-reliance-minded civilians who want to fill genuine skill gaps, backcountry hunters and hikers operating in remote terrain, military and first responder personnel looking for a civilian-accessible survival curriculum, and anyone who has started a survival skills journey and wants a single reference that covers the complete picture. GB2 Live Course students use it as a study companion before and after attending training — the PDFs give you the framework, the course gives you the field repetitions.

Why This Bundle Stands Apart

Most survival guides cover one or two skills in depth and gesture at the rest. This series covers all thirteen subjects at the depth they deserve — not summaries, but structured instruction built around a proven training methodology. The progressive structure means each guide builds on the one before it, so by Part 13 you have a complete and connected mental model of wilderness survival, not a pile of isolated techniques.

If you want to go deeper on navigation specifically, the Master Navigator PDF Series is a dedicated 8-part land navigation curriculum that pairs well with Parts 10 and 11 of this bundle. And if you want to see the full GB2 System of Training in a single hardcover reference, Surviving the Wild covers the complete curriculum at 430 pages and over 80,000 words. Free survival content from Joshua is available on the GB2 Network — a good place to start before committing to a purchase.

Ready to train in the field? The Wilderness Survival Course — 3-Day Foundation puts these skills into practice under direct instruction across four regions of the country.

Format and Delivery

Format: Digital PDF — all 13 parts delivered instantly via download link
Printable: Take individual parts into the field, mark them up, use them as reference cards
Compatible: Designed for desktop and mobile reading
Yours to keep: Download once, no expiration