A course designed as the next step in navigation training following on from Improvers navigation 1
Introduction to compass
- Introduction to Compass
- Compass points – cardinal points, 360 degree system
- The different North’s– true, grid, magnetic
- What is a bearing
- Estimating bearings from a map …step by step approach
- Taking bearings from a map with compass
- Taking grid and magnetic bearings
- How to walk on a bearing
Route Planning
- The selection of walking routes from the map – in good/poor weather
- Hazard identification with steep ground, bog,fences,forestry, rivers, etc.
- Bad weather alternatives, escape routes
- Use of route card
- Use of guidebooks and online information, forums and other people in route planning
Hill Walk
- Building on map-reading skills, the concept of timing and pacing, and to practice the compass theory introduced earlier.
- General map-reading, setting map by features
- Setting the map using a compass
- Timing calculations
- Taking bearings from map
- Walking on a bearing
- Back-bearings
- Feature recognition – close, distant
- Simple Navigational techniques – attack points, aiming off,
