Advanced Map Reading and Mountain Navigation Course

MountainsPlus offer a 2 day course for those who have either attended the beginners course or who are thoroughly confident and experienced in the basics, and who wish to develop their understanding and performance of navigational techniques to a higher level.

This course will introduce you to the skills and techniques necessary to operate in challenging conditions and help you to develop the confidence necessary to navigate safely and successfully in any mountain environment.

Cost £120. Includes full training and practice of the following important aspects.

• Honing of compass skills
• Use of contours as a primary method of navigation
• Micro-navigation using contours
• Devising strategies for a navigational stage
• “Coarse’ and ‘fine’ navigation
• ‘Aiming off’ – ‘attack points’ – ‘collecting features’
• Continuous contact in complicated areas
• Accurate distance measurement
• What to do when lost?  Re-location strategies
• Aspect of slope
• Map to ground and ground to map techniques
• Planning a route within set criteria of duration, difficulty and objectives

•  Effect of weather and terrain on discomfort, fatigue and decision making