Backpacking, Navigation & Day Hiking 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.
Contacts
- Wed, Mar 3, 2021 - Thu, Sep 30, 2021
- Committee: Foothills Navigation Committee
- Members: $65.00 Guests: $75.00
- Availability: 20 (60 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
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.
This course has no scheduled activities.
* 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
