daytime navigation and group skills --
return from Happy Valley Car Park to Tollymore Outdoor Centre
Mike Smith as Training
4 group members
covering navigation to provided map features.
distance, speed and direction.
identifying key natural features - countours, walls, rock outcrops, man made (stiles, sheep-pens)
tactics for crossing rivers in a group
supporting - emotionally and physically
use of paths - marked on the gorund, on maps and how they classify within the Lowland Leader scope
Failure point -- directed to walk to a SheepPen near a doubletrack path..
focused on direction - NOT time / distance
impact - found the path easily, but were then side-tracked for finding the sheep-pen
Spagnum moss uses
moisture
wound dressing
further lessons in finding location on a map based on location - forest edge... Tollymore edge
flora and fauna identification
lesson in the relation of grid contours on a map to the ground.. near the Kings Grave..
"cliff" of approx 60meters.. noting how close the contours are to each-other.. and the effect of "nearly 10m" being hidden between contour lines
