About Us

The Pathfinder School, LLC is an outdoor self reliance and survival school specializing in no-nonsense training for everyone who ventures into the outdoors. Founded by Dave Canterbury, The Pathfinder School provides many opportunities for you to learn the skills needed to become self reliant. Dave and The Pathfinder School are dedicated to passing on this "tribal knowledge" of outdoor self reliance and primitive skills to anyone and everyone who wants to learn. Dave Canterbury is co-owner of Self Reliance Illustrated Magazine, author of The Pathfinder System: Survivability For The Common Man, and has posted over 500 YouTube videos on the Pathfinder School, LLC YouTube Channel. Dave has started the Survival Adventure Network on YouTube, a reality based programming of real people engaged in true survival scenarios.

Utilizing his over 20 years of experience in bush crafting, outdoor self reliance and primitive skills experience, Dave and his trained instructors are dedicated in bringing you a superior level of training to prepare you for whatever conditions you find yourself in while in the outdoors!.