Hillwalking and Navigation

Skills for Walkers
Britains Mountains are made for walkers. From the billowing mounds of the
Cairngorms, the sharper West Highland ridges, towering sandstone peaks in
Torridon or the smaller but no less spectacular ranges of the Lakes and Wales.
The skills needed to safely visit our hills include:
-Selection of Clothing and Equipment
-Understanding and obtaining weather forecasts
-Emergency procedure
-River crossing
-Campcraft
-Personal movement skills
-Emergency ropework
-Navigation
I can offer a day or expedition to ensure you and
your group are happy that you have the knowledge
to tackle the hills of Britain whatever they throw at
you.

Navigation
The art of using a map and compass can seem very intimidating to some
people. I have a strong background in teaching orienteering and can introduce
you to the important skills of:
-Setting the map
-Ticking off features
-Contour interpretation
-Taking and following a bearing
-Estimating distance travelled
-Route choice
-Relocation straetgies
-Identifying 'catching' features
-Map scales and measuring distance on the map
-Using aspect of clope
-Aiming off, attack features and handrails
-Symbols and Grid References