**You can book on to either Day 1 or 2 or both days, although we recommend booking both, to get the most out of this course. This course is suitable for runners or hikers who are new to navigation , as well as those who already have some knowledge of navigation, who wish to improve their skills and to boost their performance and confidence. ****

This is an inninovative approach to navigation learning, which offers the shared experiences of experts from the world of orienteering, multi-day racing and fell running. It offers a much higher ratio of hands on learning, in comparison to your standard instructor to student top down approach because we believe in not only learning through doing, but in learning from our own and each other’s mistakes.

The theory element will allow you to practice in a group and compare experiences, pitfalls and previous errors. This will involve a Q&A session, and route plotting, using actual event maps. Refreshments are available in our classroom on Heathfield Industrial Estate, which is located right on the edge of south eastern Dartmoor, with some ideal navigation terrain.

Our guest speakers/instructors include Qualified Mountain Leader, former teacher and experienced fell runner Ceri Rees and world top ten orienteering champion Gavin Clegg.

Two Day Course Dartmoor:  Bovey Tracey, Devon

Venue:Training Hub, Room 6B, Teignbridge Business Centre,Cavalier Road, Heathfield, TQ12 6TZ

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.
• From 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

**You can book on to either Day 1 or 2 or both days, although we recommend booking both, to get the most out of this course. This course is suitable for runners or hikers who are new to navigation , as well as those who already have some knowledge of navigation, who wish to improve their skills and to boost their performance and confidence. ****

This is an inninovative approach to navigation learning, which offers the shared experiences of experts from the world of orienteering, multi-day racing and fell running. It offers a much higher ratio of hands on learning, in comparison to your standard instructor to student top down approach because we believe in not only learning through doing, but in learning from our own and each other’s mistakes.

The theory element will allow you to practice in a group and compare experiences, pitfalls and previous errors. This will involve a Q&A session, and route plotting, using actual event maps. Refreshments are available in our classroom on Heathfield Industrial Estate, which is located right on the edge of south eastern Dartmoor, with some ideal navigation terrain.

Our guest speakers/instructors include Qualified Mountain Leader, former teacher and experienced fell runner Ceri Rees and world top ten orienteering champion Gavin Clegg.