Staying Found On-Trail Navigation - Foothills - 2021

Day Hiking, Backpacking & Navigation Course

Staying Found: On-Trail Navigation

This course is focused on learning and practicing key skills useful to maintain an ongoing awareness of where you are and how to find yourself if you get lost, on even the most complicated trail system.

This hands-on course, tailored to on-trail adventurers, provides focused information on key skills and tools, and hands-on practice on the trail, to become confident reading a topographic map against the features of the terrain around you, get important information from a compass and altimeter, and maintain a steady awareness of where you are as well as how to find yourself if you get temporarily misplaced.

The course includes an evening online instructional seminar and a field practice day held outdoors at Tiger Mountain State Forest, including a 45-minute map and compass field exercise, a trip planning exercise, and  a 3-5 mile hike to apply the skills you learned. 

Course Requirements

This course has no scheduled activities.

Roster
Required Equipment

* Compass with adjustable declination (see http://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/compass-declination.html, http://www.thecompassstore.com/comwitaddec.html)

* Green Trails Tiger Mountain map #204S

* Watch 

Recommended:

* Altimeter, or smartphone with altimeter app