Take your navigation skills to the next level with our intensive 3-day Advanced Navigation Course, designed for outdoor enthusiasts who already have solid foundational skills and want to operate confidently and independently in complex mountain terrain—both in daylight and after dark.
Across three immersive days, you’ll refine advanced contour interpretation, strengthen your compass expertise, and build robust navigation strategies for poor visibility and challenging conditions.
The final day transitions from day into night, giving you hands-on experience navigating in darkness—an essential skill for anyone heading into remote or unpredictable mountain environments.
A quick refresher to ensure everyone has consistent baseline skills. We’ll revisit core map reading and compass techniques before moving into more advanced applications.
Learn to select the best map for your intended terrain, and adapt techniques between OS maps and Harvey, and operate using different scale maps (1:25k, 1:40k)
Develop detailed terrain-reading skills - recognising micro-features, changes in slope aspect, complex contour patterns and changes in gradient for effective navigation.
Master walking on bearings, drift management, attack points, back bearings, boxing around obstacles, and accurate navigation across 'featureless' or broken ground.
Integrate compass work, contour interpretation, and use collecting features to create reliable strategies in mist, cloud, or challenging visibility.
Learn the principles of navigating in darkness:
-Torch management & equipment considerations
-Bearings and feature recognition
-Navigation pacing/timing adjustments after dark
-Using subtle terrain cues, sound, and slope awareness
The final part of the course transitions from late afternoon into night. You will complete a series of structured navigation legs designed to develop confidence when operating in near-zero visibility, using compass work and terrain interpretation. This will take place on day 3 - where we will have later start and subsequently a later finish (~10pm depending on time of year).
-Advanced contour interpretation
-Micro-navigation
-Measuring distance (timing & pacing)
-Navigating across complex or featureless terrain
-Aiming off, attack points & catching features
-The compass: functions & precise bearings
-Navigation in poor visibility
-Relocation strategies
-Route choice, safe decision-making & hazard avoidance
-Night navigation techniques
-Navigating away from paths and in remote terrain
Level: intermediate
16+ (under 18's must be accompanied by a parent/adult)
1:4 Ratio | 4 spaces per course (two instructors means double spaces)
Minimum 2 bookings for course to run
-Some basic or intermediate map reading skills are beneficial - i.e. you can read a map and take a compass bearing
-Completion of our improvers navigation or higher standard course (ML Training or similar) is beneficial
-Kit list provided at booking.
-Wear warm, waterproof clothing and mountain boots.
-Bring a sturdy rucksack, lunch, snacks, and water.
-OL4 map
-Harvey Superwalker West is also beneficial to have
-Silva Expedition 4 compass
-Stopwatch
-Headtorch
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Mountain Navigation: Advanced
If the course date is less than 30 days away, please use this ticket and pay in full.
4 verfügbar
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£295.00 | |
Book with 50% deposit
This ticket allows you to pay a deposit to secure your place on the course. We will be in touch when the full amount is due, this will be via email and we will send you a link to an easy bank transfer. The full amount will be due no later than 30 days before the course commences. The contract you enter into on this ticket is a promise to pay the full amount owed.
4 verfügbar
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£147.50 |
Honister
Honister Pass
Keswick
CA12 5XN
Please meet your instructor at this location
Sam drives a Grey Skoda Estate: MH68 TFA
Please come over to the vehicle and say hello; we will do briefings and course introductions in the cafe
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