About the trip
This is a mountain navigation course that can run with up to 6 people per instructor.
This introduction to navigation course is a foundational course designed to help people navigate effectively in the outdoors. It emphasises hands-on, practical learning in a controlled environment, ensuring participants leave with the ability to find their way in hill, moorland and mountain terrain.
The day will based in High Borrowdale, meeting at Honister Slate Mine, in the cafe at this location for briefings and course background before we cover some navigation theory and head out for a journey around Grey Knotts, Brandreth, Haystacks and Fleetwith Pike, to put all skills into practice and develop our navigation techniques.
The day will be in mountainous terrain, heading up onto the summits of Brandreth and Grey Knotts. Here we will be on mountain and fell paths and tracks, rough ground, bog and grass with some short but steep uphill and downhill sections.
The journey is normally around 8km.
COURSE OUTLINE
Theory Session
Map choices, legend, scales and symbols
Understanding the Map
Features, contours & topography and grid references
Map Reading Skills
Orientating the map, feature association, recognising prominent landmarks,
Orienteering and Journey Planning
Measuring distances and forming solid strategies, relaying information from map to ground with pacing and timing
Compass Basics
The compass, its features and basic usage
Practical Navigation Exercises
Participants practice their navigation skills in a controlled outdoor setting with an emphasis on using maps, compasses, and orienteering techniques appropriate to the terrain travelled
Intro to GPS
Looking at appropriate apps and technology, whats recommended and what should be avoided
SKILLS COVERED
Choosing a map and map types
Grid references
Orientating the map
4 D's of navigation
Measuring distances
Timings
Navigating via linear features such as paths, walls and streams
Developing hand railing techniques
Basic contour interpretation
Intro to GPS
This introduction to navigation course is a foundational course designed to help people navigate effectively in the outdoors. It emphasises hands-on, practical learning in a controlled environment, ensuring participants leave with the ability to find their way in hill, moorland and mountain terrain.
The day will based in High Borrowdale, meeting at Honister Slate Mine, in the cafe at this location for briefings and course background before we cover some navigation theory and head out for a journey around Grey Knotts, Brandreth, Haystacks and Fleetwith Pike, to put all skills into practice and develop our navigation techniques.
The day will be in mountainous terrain, heading up onto the summits of Brandreth and Grey Knotts. Here we will be on mountain and fell paths and tracks, rough ground, bog and grass with some short but steep uphill and downhill sections.
The journey is normally around 8km.
COURSE OUTLINE
Theory Session
Map choices, legend, scales and symbols
Understanding the Map
Features, contours & topography and grid references
Map Reading Skills
Orientating the map, feature association, recognising prominent landmarks,
Orienteering and Journey Planning
Measuring distances and forming solid strategies, relaying information from map to ground with pacing and timing
Compass Basics
The compass, its features and basic usage
Practical Navigation Exercises
Participants practice their navigation skills in a controlled outdoor setting with an emphasis on using maps, compasses, and orienteering techniques appropriate to the terrain travelled
Intro to GPS
Looking at appropriate apps and technology, whats recommended and what should be avoided
SKILLS COVERED
Choosing a map and map types
Grid references
Orientating the map
4 D's of navigation
Measuring distances
Timings
Navigating via linear features such as paths, walls and streams
Developing hand railing techniques
Basic contour interpretation
Intro to GPS