navigation course on Dartmoor- 1 or 2 days

Boost your confidence whether it's training alone on the moor, in upland areas, walking or racing. This course also includes course planning. One or two days. We'll start with an hour's theory each day over coffee and finish with 4 to 5 hours of practice. 

What’s included

• Skills/Technique training
  
• Set a Compass bearing from map to ground.
• Use a compass to follow bearings accurately across open ground over short legs.
• Measure distances with reasonable accuracy by double pacing and timing.
• Estimate the time needed for height gain.
• Use major landforms (hills, spurs, valleys, ridges) as a means of navigation.
• Identify smaller contour features on a map and ground ie re entrants and small hills.
• Use aiming off to reach a target on a linear feature.
• Identify the most appropriate route, where more than one is available.
• Use coarse navigation and collection features to locate an attack point.
• From an attack point use fine navigation to locate a target.

Additional extra. We will also provide GPS navigation techniques (upon request), including downloading and uploading routes and getting the most out of your device for following a route and for knowing where you are.