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Survival Skills Workshops & Competition! Learn new skills from expert & celebrity survivalists then compete & test your skills!

Format
2-person teams
30 min skills lessons
60 min challenges
x6 challenges over 2 days

Next event
8/14-8/16 2026
Molalla, OR

10/23/2026

SURVIVAL 101 • NATURE’S LOUNGE CHAIR

Who needs camping furniture when nature provides? 👀

Whether you’re spending hours in the wilderness, sitting in a deer blind, setting up camp, or just need a place to kick back, knowing how to build a comfortable seat using your natural surroundings is a surprisingly useful outdoor skill.

In this survival tip our founder, Tony Peniche, is showing you how to create Nature’s Lounge Chair using nothing more than a tree, punky wood, and moss.

No gear. No fancy equipment. Just a little bushcraft ingenuity.

What do you think our next tip should be for? 🤔 Save this for your next camping trip and follow The Survival Games for more wilderness survival tips, bushcraft techniques, and outdoor skills!

10/20/2026

survivor but irl

10/13/2026

🏹 CHALLENGE TWO | HUNTING

This year, we took the Hunting Challenge back to the basics.

With 30 minutes of instruction from Danny Dannard Graves, survivalists learned how to build their own primitive bows and arrows before putting their skills to the test.

THE BUILD | 60 MINUTES

Each team had one hour to build two bamboo longbows and ten arrows using the materials provided.

THE CHALLENGE | 75 SECONDS

With five arrows & one long bow per survivalist, teams moved through five archery stations:

🎯 Station 1-3: Three life sized animal targets. Points were awarded based on shot placement.

🎯 Station 4: A moving target, one shot to make it count.

🎯 Station 5: The long distance shot. One final arrow to see just how far their handmade bow can shoot.

Building a bow is one thing. Building one that actually performs under pressure is another.

60 minutes to build. 90 seconds to compete.

Who do you think had the advantage in this challenge: an experienced archer or an experienced bushcrafter? 🤔

Key sponsors for this challenge:
Big Shot Targets, White Water Archery, David Horstman, Molalla Ripple

09/25/2026

🔥 SURVIVAL 101: FIRE

No lighter. No matches. Just friction, pressure, and technique.

The Rüdiger fire roll is a friction fire method used to create an ember by rolling prepared fibrous material under pressure. And at the Survival Games, it wasn’t just something competitors learned about, they had to put it into practice.

Because knowing how to make fire is one thing, doing it under pressure is another.

🔥 Have you ever successfully made fire using a Rüdiger roll?

Thank you to our instructor for the 2026 Survival Games Fire Challenge, Karie Lee | Alone Season 9 | Wilderness Instructor.

09/15/2026

Can’t go too big, or it could cost your life.

A small shelter keeps heat in, closer to your body when you need it most.

In the survival masterclasses by Karie Lee | Alone Season 9 | Wilderness Instructor and Lindsay Persico, streaming on 360 Sportsman • The ULTIMATE Outdoor Masterclass, you’ll learn how to build insulated shelters, protect yourself from elements, and keep yourself alive in harsh conditions.

Learn from the experts, get 25% OFF these courses with code RUT25

Start now at the link in bio🔗

09/09/2026

CHALLENGE ONE • SHELTER 🌲🌧️

And just like that, the 2026 PNW Survival Games were underway.

Before competing, survivalists received 30 minutes of hands on instruction from Alone’s Jacks Genega and Joel van der Loon, then they were on their own.

The mission: use what they learned, the gear in their packs, and whatever natural materials they could harvest from the property to build a suspended shelter in just 60 minutes.

Then came the part that really mattered…

Get in. Bring on the rain. And see if your shelter actually works. 😅

Each team’s shelter had to hold one partner at least 20 inches off the ground through a 60 second rain simulation. Afterward, their jumpsuit was weighed to see just how dry they managed to stay.

Some shelters held up better than others. Some shelters fell apart. 👀

Could you and your partner pass the Shelter Challenge?

Follow along as we take you through every challenge of the 2026 PNW Survival Games.

Host: The Survival Games, Joel van der Loon
Shelter Challenge Instructors: WILDC♥️RD Wilderness Survival, Joel van der Loon
Venue: Molalla Ripple
Gear Bags: Official Olight Page, My Medic, VIKTØS Black Arms Comp., Brunton, Outdoor Element, WΛZOO 🔥⛺️⚔️🧭💧, NEAR ZERO, SilverAnt Outdoors, ARCTURUS [arc-ter-us]], MODL,
Weyland Outdoors, Better Bushcraft, Jxe Jxo, Club Thrw, Wilderness Athlete, Survival Gear BSO

Address

Portland, OR

Website

https://linktr.ee/pnwsurvivalgames

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