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NAVIGATION ACTIVITY #2 - IN-PERSON WORKSHOP + FIELD TRIP FALL COURSE - Discovery Park

Field trip: WILDERNESS NAVIGATION COURSE - FALL

NAVIGATION ACTIVITY #2 - IN-PERSON WORKSHOP + FIELD TRIP FALL COURSE - Discovery Park

Hands-on classroom and field trip practice held at Discovery Park.

Contacts

Otto Greule
Otto Greule
Primary Leader
  • Easy
  • Mileage: 4.0 mi
  • High Point Elevation: 320 ft

Location: Discovery Park, South Parking Lot, Entrance to parking lot at West Emerson St. + 43rd Ave West.

Instructors Arrive: 7:00am, Students Arrive: 7:30am

Coordinates: UTM WGS84, Zone 10T 544294E  5278093N, or 47.65472, -122.41014

Before you can sign up for Activity #2, you need to first sign up and pay for the Off-Trail Navigation Course and schedule the prerequisite Activities 1A and 1B, which must be completed successfully. Instructors do not need to pay for the course.  

Carpooling is strongly encouraged so please specify your carpool preferences in your personal profile. The Mountaineers does not assist with carpools. Try using a resource such as groupcarpool.com. Public transit is also available at kingcounty.gov.

Most groups will finish between 3:30-4pm.

Badges

students will earn:

instructors will earn:

Route/Place

Discovery Park

Roster
Required Equipment

Required Equipment

  1. Come prepared as you would for a scramble or hike in varied weather, but please leave the technical gear (helmet, ice axe, etc) at home. Bring trail shoes or boots, hat, gloves, a waterproof outer layer, warm clothes in layers, trail food, water, etc. Note there’s a 30 minute lunch break.
  2. Bring your Baring map and mirrored compass. Unfortunately you can't share a compass with someone during the Field Trip.  
  3. Bring your fully charged Smartphone loaded with Gaia, barometric Altimeter (or a barometric altimeter app such as AltimeterPlus).
  4. Bring pencil and paper for taking notes during the morning classroom session and the afternoon field session.

Instructors:

  • Scenario notes and all necessary maps will be sent to you electronically a few days ahead of time and hard copies will be issued to you at checkin.
  • Bring your compass, GPS, Altimeter, and PLB if you have one (PLBs are for demonstration purposes).
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