MTA Workshop "ML Navigation for a Successful Assessment" with Graham Uney at Burnbanks, Haweswater Reservoir, and Bampton Common, Cumbria. Navigation training.
Total Time: 7 hours 38 minutes; Total Distance: 10.56km
Camped overnight at Ullswater for an early start in Burn Banks the following morning.
Group of five on the workshop, with Graham Uney providing structured organization to the practice of navigation skills, including taking bearings from compass, bearings from a map, walking on bearings, timing, pacing, locating small features on the map, locating features by contour lines, relocation, aiming off, catching features, boxing, attack points, slope aspect, route planning. Each group member planned and led legs to features, including points identified by contour lines, i.e., bottom of a reentrant, top of a ring contour. When the target location was reached the other members of the group separately identified the location on the map.
Area :
Northern Fells
The Northern Fells occupy a circular area about 10 miles in diameter. The centre is slightly lower, an area of upland grazing and marshland known as Skiddaw Forest. This name may be misleading since the only trees form the windbreak of Skiddaw House. This isolated building, was once a shepherd's bothy. It currently serves as a youth hostel. Skiddaw Forest stands at the head of the three major rivers of the Northern Fells. The Caldew, Dash Beck and the Glenderaterra. These streams divide the circular area into three distinct sections.
