Whether you’re traveling in hostile or undeveloped environments or just want to improve your skills, this (1) one-day course is designed to improve your off-road driving skills at any experience level. Topics covered include:

• Different terrain surfaces: gravel, topsoil, grass, hard-packed clay, and shale.

• How to read and change driving techniques based on vehicle language.

• Approach and departure angles.

• Suspension variables and the importance of planning prior to negotiating an obstacle.

• To identify components both underneath and in the engine compartment of a vehicle and what needs to be protected.

• Understanding of driver/vehicle relationship.

• Vehicle language, weight and traction transfer, body position, hand management, and pedal control.

• The challenges of high and low-frequency bumps and the problems each can create.

• The challenges of smoothly negotiating a variety of obstacles: rocks, stumps, ditches, dry creek beds, logs, ruts, hills, mud, and topsoil.

• How to use available materials to overcome obstacles.

• Necessity and technique of using a ground guide.

• Employment of equipment to recover a downed or stuck vehicle in a single or multi-vehicle situation.