Mountain/OMM Practical Navigation - Glenridding
Info: New bookings for this course closed on Friday 14th May 2021.
| Booking Fee | £45.00 |
Mountain/OMM Practical Navigation | Intermediate to Advanced | Follow up to Online MM Navigation
If you have taken part in a Mountain Run Online Mountain/OMM Navigation Session then this is the practical side to all the theory that you learnt online.
** If you haven't taken part in one of our online sessions, then you will need to understand navigation to the point where you:
- Understand scales, features and have a good understanding of contours
- Know how to set a bearing correctly and understand the principle of following it.
- Understand about map orientation and why this is necessary for good navigation
- Understand the terms; Hand-railing, collecting and catching features, aiming off and attack points [you just need the understanding, we will develop the skills on the course]
If you do not fit the description above, please see the Basic to Intermediate Practical session here
Meeting Time: 13:30
Meeting Location: Glenridding, Mountain Run HQ - https://www.mountainrun.co.uk/about-us/contact-us
Training Area: Place Fell/Beda Fell or similar
Course Duration: 4 hours
What to expect:
- A professionally delivered course, designed by Mountain Runners for Mountain Runners.
- 4 hours of on the hill, practical navigation
- Tips and tricks to keep you in contact with the map
- Expert coaches/instructors to learn from
- Elite mountain runners delivering the course, who are extremely passionate and knowledgeable about their subject
Mountain Marathon and/or Orienteering Maps of the area you are training in
What will you learn?
- How to use the techniques of; Hand-railing, collecting and catching features, aiming off and attack points
- How to use and swap between coarse and fine navigation and why we use these techniques
- A further understanding of contour interpretation and how to develop this knowledge.
- Simple tricks and tips to keep you in contact with the map and your surroundings
- Quick relocation skills
- How to read the map whilst on the move using acute and periphery vision
Course Program
Course timings:
13:30 to 17:30 [allowing you to take a basic session first as a refresher]
- Meet at the course location
- Listen to a quick overview and recap on basic techniques
Head into the hills to learn and put in to practice; hand-railing, collecting and catching features, aiming off, using attack points and coarse/fine navigation, thumbing the map, running on the needle and much more
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