The purpose of the Basic Survival Class for the pipe smoker, is to provide students with the knowledge to survive an apocalypse scenario, using the items the Peck's terms of Smoking and Survivability. The multi-functionality of the items within the kit will be discussed, demonstrated and applied to self-aid situations including emergency methods of opening your tin, lighting your pipe with a stone "striker" (quartz) and "handstone" (pentlandite) that you have found, and subsequently tamping with sticks you have whittled.
Basic does not mean easy, it means the essential facts or principles of a pipe smoking survival skills. Peck's essentials will revolutionize your outdoor training by pushing you beyond the limits you would otherwise push yourself. You can expect to walk an overall average of five miles per day carrying your gear (approx 35lb of tinned tobacco) along with collected woodland materials as needed for smoking including, carving makeshift pipes from scavenged wood etc.
During your first night at camp, you may utilize your pipe and old boy lighter from home, or other comfort items you regularly smoke with, but by 7am the next morning, they must be packed away and you will have to rely solely on your survival pipe roll and pipe tobacco kit for the rest of the class.
You will complete various timed exercises individually and as part of a team. Starting with opening a tin of Dunhill's Nightcap. Each deliverable is designed to make you more self reliant. If you don't give up on yourself, Peck won't give up on you.
