Navigation Residential Dartmoor: 1 and 2 days

This course offers a new interactive approach to navigation, by offering the chance to learn from guest speakers with backgrounds in orienteering, multi-day racing and fell running. It offers a 50:50 theory to practice ratio and involves group work, Q&As and route plotting, using actual event maps. Refreshments are available in our classroom on Bovey Common, but we will head out to Dartmoor National Park to put the theory in to practise. Guest speakers and trainers include a world top ten orienteering champion and GB International multi-day athletes.

Two Day Course Dartmoor:  Bovey Tracey, Devon

Venue: https://w3w.co/consented.outlines.slept

Day One

9am: Intro talk and anecdotes from guest speakers in the world of multi-day adventure racing, orienteering and fell running

Q &A about some of the pitfalls that can befall you and how to get out of a pickle.

Refreshments

Group work: Setting a route and deciding on a plan of action, given different scenarios

Discussing different GPS devices and route planners

12.00 to 12.30pm: Lunch

Skills/Technique

• 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.
•    1pm to 4pm: Practice on Dartmoor
• 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.
• Form an attack point use fine navigation to locate a target.

Day Two

•   9am: Discuss day one's lessons
• Looking at different types of maps
• Looking at real examples of a Sky race/OMM or multi day event from a navigation perspective
• Group work: Deciding on a long or short course points route
• 12.00 to 12.30pm: Lunch
• 1pm to 4pm: Practice on Dartmoor
•   4 to 5pm: Debrief