Beyond the Edge - Introduction to Navigation 2 day

Navigation is an essential building block to equip anyone for outdoor adventures.

This two day beginners’ navigation course is great fun, and gives you the basics to be competent on walks on paths around the Peak District and beyond. As Mountain rescuers, we also cover basic emergency procedures so you can be safe anywhere on the hills.

£165 per person or from £265 for a group

Introduction to Navigation – Course Overview

A highly practical two days giving you the essentials to be able to follow paths and tracks on your outdoor adventures.

We provide maps and compasses, and teach you how to use them to navigate with confidence along simple routes.

The first day of the beginners course is the same course content as our Introduction to Navigation 1 day course. The second day builds on those basics and teaches more advanced navigation techniques and allows refinement of the techniques learned in different terrain. This ensures the knowledge is ingrained in your navigational DNA.

We also cover other essential skills for hillwalking safely such as movement skills, weather, nutrition and emergency procedures.

If you are a regular hillwalker who has some map knowledge you may be suitable for an Intermediate Navigation course / NNAS Silver. Please contact the office if you are unsure and we will steer you in the right direction.

We would like to offer a space where women can develop and practice their skills in a women’s only environment, learning from female instructors. We have tried to run these courses multiple times for the last three years but only twice got enough participants to make it viable.  We no longer offer dates as open courses, however if you would like to attend a women’s only course, you can do this as a bespoke course and we will provide a female instructor.

Beyond the Edge are one of the UKs most experienced providers of mountain training courses and they are both highly informative and run by hugely experienced trainers. Importantly in our opinion, they are also fun and run in a friendly manner. We take great pride in the very high percentage of individuals who return for further courses.

Introduction to Navigation – Course Format

We start at 9am with a chat over a cuppa in our training room, covering some theory and a few fun exercises before heading outside. During the course we will cover:

• The basics of navigation
• Maps. Different types and scales.
• Grid references
• Orientating the map
• Measuring distances
• Understanding contours
• Compass work
• Planning a simple route
• Navigational errors, spotting them and relocating
• Hydration, nutrition and kit
• Emergency procedures

We aim to finish the day at around 5pm.

Find out more at: beyondtheedge.co.uk