Map and compass training courses
EVERYONE learns to use a map and compass
Map reading and how to use a compass courses
Learn how to use a map and compass to plan and navigate your own routes
One, two day and Bronze National Navigation Award Scheme courses suitable for complete beginners.
Silver and Gold National Navigation Award Scheme, hill & mountain navigation courses for intermediate navigators
One and two day map reading courses
Beginners will learn how to use a map and compass on day one
Two day courses to use contours, additional compass technique and skills learnt on day one to plan and walk routes, consolidate learning and gain further confidence
Which course to choose - One or two day map reading course?
Learn how to use a map and compass together on day one. Consolidate skills and use contours and few more tips a tricks on day to gain confidence in using them to plan and navigate your own routes. Most people who do both days find it very beneficial!
Two day course or return and do the second day later
On a one day course you will learn enough to start planning and navigating your own routes.
Over two days you will have the opportunity to consolidate what you have learnt, try the techniques out on a variety of tracks and paths and gain more confidence in using them.
You will also learn how to use larger contours features, check the direction of travel and some of the features using the compass and have the opportunity to plan and n a section of the route.
Feed back form past participants that have done both days or returned for the second later has been very positive. Many found the day gave them increased confidence to go away and navigate on their own.
You can return to do the second day on another weekend if you want to
You can read all about the one and two day map reading courses here
Two day or Bronze National Navigation Award Scheme?
You will learn the same things on the two day course and Bronze NNAS
The two day course and the Bronze National Navigation Award Scheme run alongside each other. Bronze candidates are registered with the NNAS, will be informally assed using a syllabus check list of skills learnt and will be asked a few questions to check understanding of what they have learnt.
Two day or Bronze National Navigation Award Scheme?
The two day course and the Bronze NNAS often run at the same time.
Everyone doing the two day course are learning the Bronze syllabus skills with a few differences:
Candidates for the bronze pay £149 per person when they book to cover registration & certificate costs with NNAS
If you want to do the BNNAS after the two day course has started then the registraion fee is £15 per person
There understanding of what they have learnt is informally assessed against a checklist of syllabus 'skills' and group and individual Q&A's
They will get awarded the Bronze level and the chance to down load a swanky certificate and be the envy of their outdoor friends
You can read all the details and look at the syllabus for the Bronze National Navigation Award Scheme course here
Bronze National Navigation Award Scheme
Suitable for complete beginners
Learn to navigate
Plan and walk your own routes
Use a map and compass
Everyone can & WILL learn to use a compass!
All equipment provided
Quality maps & compasses
Bronze National Navigation Award Scheme
Bronze level courses are suitable for complete beginners
Learn how to use a map and compass together to plan and start navigating your own routes on tracks, paths and countryside rights of way.
Silver National Navigation Award Scheme
Intermediate navigators will learn skills to navigate on more open countryside utilising and building on Bronze level techniques
Use compass bearings, finer detail, smaller contour features to navigate on more open countryside and less obvious tracks and paths
Gold National Navigation Award Scheme
Utilise bronze and silver techniques in the contact of Gold NNAS strategies using contours and fine detail as the primary means of navigation
Optional pre-day available for those with rusty skills or wanting to 'acclimatise' to mountain terrain
Map reading course gift vouchers
Valid for 6 months* and can be purchased for any navigation course. Emailed to purchaser within 72 hours. Recipiant books as normal when they find a date that suits.
Navigation courses - Learn how to use a map and compass
New Forest Navigation map reading courses start from car parks and villages within the New Forest National Park. Courses also start in Cranbourne Chase, South Downs, Dorset, Wilstshire and Hampshire. The New Forest is located in south Hampshire, South East England. It is easily accessible from the surrounding counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Surrey, Sussex and London. No need to travel to Snowdnia or Peak District with the New Forest on your door step! Course start locations are reached easily from all New Forest villages and towns, which all have a huge range of accommodation options; Brockenhurst, Lyndhurst, Lymington, Christchurch, Fordingbridge, Ringwood, Burley, Sway and further afield at Bournemouth, Southampton and Salisbury.
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