Intermediate Navigation

Overview:

Our one-day Intermediate Navigation Course revises the essential basics and develops you to the next level.  You will learn the correct use of the compass to take bearings and back-bearings, to understand contours and different slope shapes and how that will affect your journey.  

Timings are generally a 09:00AM meeting and briefing.  Then a circular day walk of around 6-15km (depending on group ability and aims ) with a finish at 4.00PM.

Who is the Course For:

This one day Intermediate Navigation course is for those who are fairly confident.  Before you come you will already be able to plot a 6 figure Grid Reference, identify roads, tracks and paths.  Use woods and rivers as navigational aids.  Under 18s must be accompanied by a parent/carer. 

What's Involved:

Map reading and navigation is good fun.  What’s more, it is also the first skill to become familiar with if you want to enjoy walks in the hills and moors of the UK, or indeed on trails all over the world.  These beginners’ navigation courses are for people who have never navigated before, or have just followed along in large groups, but who now want to take more control for themselves.  As well as enjoying a pleasant day’s walking, you will be shown all the main skills for map reading in the countryside on fairly well marked tracks and trails.  We will also introduce you to basic use of a compass.

• Refresher stuff - use a 1:25,000 OS map and Compass (provided).

• Use a compass confidently - Bearings, measure distance.

• Understand contours, hill shapes and the affect on your journey.

• Understand Pace and spped.  Estimate journey timings and distance travelled.

• Nav in poor visibility.

• Actions on 'Lost' - Introduction to Relocation skills.

Instructor to client ratio:

The ratio for these courses is 1:6.

Full details, locations and timings will be sent once your booking is confirmed.