Map & Compass Navigation - Nov 22

How to find your way, find where you are & find help in an emergency! You will learn and understand all the basics of land navigation with AND without a map & compass in the backcountry. More self-reliance basics for the outdoors you will actually use.

This class is inside & outside, with study inside our air-conditioned classroom and jaunts outside to put what you’ve learned into practice and then a final outdoor challenge at the end.

Map & Compass Navigation - You will learn:

• Lost-Proofing & Wayfinding Skills to aid navigation with or without a compass
• How to use the baseplate compass
• Reading a topographic map
• The techniques that make it easy
• Use a compass to take a bearing, plot your position on a map, and understand a route plan
• Options for Baselines, backstops, aiming off, triangulating position and intersection
• How to identify and use an Emergency Azimuth