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Navigation Courses in Snowdonia North Wales

Prices are £50 pp 1 Day course and £90pp for a 2 Day Course and include instruction from fully qualified instructors, we can provide maps and compasses if you don't have your own. All courses run over weekend dates, contact us for midweek dates.

2008 Course Dates

Beginners/ Intermediate

1 Day Course	2 Day Course
March 22nd	March 22nd - 23rd
April 5th	April 5th - 6th
May 3rd	May 3rd - 4th
June 14th, 28th	June 14th - 15th, 28th - 29th
July 5th	July 5th - 6th
August 23rd	August 23rd - 24th
September 6th	September 6th - 7th

Intermediate/ Advanced

1 Day Course	2 Day Course
March 29th	March 29th - 30th
April 12th	April 12th - 13th
May 10th	May 10th - 11th
June 7th	June 7th - 8th
July 12th	July 12th - 13th
August 30th	August 30th - 31st
September 20th, 27th	September 20th - 21st, 27th - 28th
October 11th, 25th	October 11th - 12th, 25th - 26th

What we typically cover on a course:

The Grid system and Grid References
Symbols for Public Rights of Way
Other important information for the hill walker
Contour Lines
Map Scales used by hill walkers
Work out personal pacing lengths over 100metres
Micro Navigation- smaller distances and smaller features
Use of the compass to take bearings from a map
Macro or large area navigation techniques
Pacing distances
Naizmiths rule
Walking on general compass bearings and dead reckoning bearings
Aiming off
Hand-railing features
Attack points
Identifying Spurs and Re-entrants, and other Physical features

Course Dates 2008: Brecon Beacons

At the moment these courses run on demand so please contact us for dates