About
This workshop will cover the following navigation topics:
- Night navigation strategies covered in a refresher format (please have a familiarity with MT’s classification of ‘red, amber, green’ for navigation).
- How terrain and slope affects our pacing ‘magic number’ and how we ought to adapt it bearing this in mind.
- Spiral search techniques to relocate ourselves in poor vis/dark conditions.
- Red, Amber Green navigation gradings (from current MT guidelines).
- Handrailing, pacing on a range of terrain and gradients – developing your magic number.
Please bring the following: a headtorch/torch power sufficient for 4 hour minimum, a brew and snacks, a compass, map of Dartmoor – OS and/or Harveys 1:25,000, and kit and clothing for the weather conditions.
Please be ready to go at 18.30 in the Princetown Public Car Park, grid reference SX 589 735.
The workshop costs £5 and this will be collected on the evening and donated in full to DSRT Tavistock where the workshop provider Andy Hodges has been a team member for 27 years. Andy has held the ML award for 20 years and he has been an IML since 2018. Andy is also the coordinator of the Ten Tors ECM team. Andy has also written several alpine walking guidebooks for Cicerone Press.
To book a space on the workshop please contact Andy directly on andyhodgesiml@gmail.com or 07917354690.
Please allow 2 weeks upon completetion of the workshop for the CPD points to be automatically added to your record.
Where And When
- Start
- 20/02/2023 18:30
- End
- 20/02/2023 22:00
- Total Days
- 0.5
- Maximum Bookings
- 12
- Bookings
- 6
- Venue
- Princetown public car park
- Town
- Princetown
- County
- Devon
- Postcode
- PL20 6QF
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Latitude
- 50.54407
- Longitude
- -3.99251
CPD Points
Provider
- Name
- BAIML
- Phone
- 07917354690