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Navigation Courses in Snowdonia North Wales

Prices are £50 pp 1 Day course and £85pp 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.

2011 Course Dates

Beginners/ Intermediate

1 Day Course	2 Day Course
September 10th	September 10th - 11th
October 8th, 29th	October 8th - 9th, 29th - 30th
November 12th, 26th	November 12th - 13th, 26th - 27th
December 3rd, 17th	December 3rd - 4th, 17th - 18th
January 2012 14th	January 2012 14th - 15th

Intermediate/ Advanced

1 Day Course	2 Day Course
September 17th	September 17th - 18th
October 15th	October 15th - 16th
November 5th	November 5th - 6th
December 10th	December 10th - 11th
January 2012 21st	January 2012 21st - 22nd

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 2011: Brecon Beacons

1 and/or 2 day courses meeting in Crickhowell. Simply choose a Saturday 1 day course or the whole weekend.

November 19th - 20th

generally we need a minimum group size of 4 for a course to run.

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