MountainsPlus
Map Reading and Mountain Navigation Courses
The Lake District’s Mountain Navigation Training Specialists
Map Reading & Mountain Navigation Course - 2 day beginners - 20th/21st February
2010
Map Reading & Mountain Navigation Course - 2 day beginners - 27th/28th March
2010
Map Reading & Mountain Navigation Course - 2 day beginners - 10th/11th April
2010
5 day Navigation & Mountain Skills - 5 day complete course - 26th/30th April
2010
Map Reading & Mountain Navigation Course - 2 day beginners - 8th/9th May 2010
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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
Course Dates 2010
Sat/Sun 8/9th May
Sat/Sun 2/3rd October
Sat/Sun 20/21st November