map and compass

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training

Navigation Skills You Need for Mountain Leader Training

Navigation is the technical core of the Mountain Leader Award. Everything else – group management, risk assessment, campcraft – is built on a foundation of being able to move competently and confidently through mountain terrain without getting lost. If your navigation isn’t solid, nothing else matters. This guide sets out the specific navigation skills required for ML training and assessment, and how to develop each one during your Quality Mountain Days.

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guides

How to Navigate with Map and Compass: A Beginner's Guide

Navigation is the foundation skill of hillwalking. Everything else, choice of route, decision-making in bad weather, getting home safely, depends on knowing where you are and being able to work out how to get where you’re going. The good news is that map and compass navigation is not complicated. The principles are simple and can be learned by anyone. What takes time is practice, the ability to read terrain quickly and navigate fluently comes from time spent on the hill with a map in your hand.

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