Being a competent and confident navigator will open up new adventures for you, in the hills and mountains; these skills will keep you safe too.
Having this confidence will also give you more headspace for simply enjoying your hill-walk, freed from the need to be obsessing over a map all the time, whilst also knowing innately, that you’ve the underlying techniques embedded, for when things get a little more serious!
Fundamentals of Map Reading
Through this introductory level day-long training session, I can take you through the foundation skills of map reading and help you develop the confidence to take a lead. We’ll cover things like relating the map to the ground, setting our map using features or compass and understanding the ‘language’ of the map and navigation…
Hill, Mountain & Moor Navigation
This two-day training course will give you a solid grounding in the practical skills of navigating in more remote areas. Through a combination of teaching and practical application, you will go beyond the basics and also learning about pacing, timing, walking on a bearing and more…
The Complete Navigator
This is a custom-designed training course, usually delivered to very small groups or one-to-one, for those who have the foundation skills but who want to ether revisit or develop their skills and then take things further; it can be based over two locations (for example the moors of Derbyshire and Lake District Fells) and even included night navigation.
