Next Step Night Navigation Skills
Activity: Hillwalking
£35.00 Book Now
↓ Course pre-requisites
A reasonable level of fitness and some experience of hillwalking is required for this Next Step Night Navigation Skills course.
A good basic level of understanding of map reading and hillwalking equipment. If you are unsure of your suitability please contact us to discuss – Email:livetheadventure@tollymore.com or Tel: 028 4372 2158
↓ Course summary
The Next Step Night Navigation Skills course will be based at the Tollymore National Outdoor Centre and utilises many challenging areas of the Mournes.
The course will include:
- Planning a night journey
- The right equipment in the right place (head torch, compass, etc)
- Timing and pacing
- Fine detail navigation, including subtle contour features and relocation techniques
- Poor visibility / night navigation in the mountain environment
↓ Who is the course for?
This Next Step Night Navigation Skills course is for those with some previous hillwalking experience and map reading skills who want to move it up a notch and fine tune all aspects of their skills especially in darkness or very poor visibility.
Practising your navigation at night is an excellent means of refining your navigational skills and giving yourself the confidence to navigate in many testing conditions.
↓ What equipment do I need to bring?
Bring any of your own personal hillwaking outdoor clothing and kit. Such as, waterproof jacket and trousers, boots, fleece jacket, hat and gloves, flask, water bottle, head torch, mourne map (1:25,000), and spare clothes (it’s best to bring plenty of lighter layers and avoid cotton if possible as it offers little heat and takes ages to dry out if wet or sweaty).
Please ensure you bring along a device which will allow you to ‘stopwatch’ your time.
Tollymore can supply most of the equipment you require for this course but it is preferable to use your own were possible even if it’s just a chance for your instructor to comment on your kit and give advice.
↓ What does my course fee include?
Equipment, in-course transport, instruction, and tea and coffee.
↓ Useful books and resources
- Hillwalking Steve Long MLTUK
Current situation
As you are probably aware the current advice from the Northern Ireland Executive, Health Promotion Agency NI and Health & Safety Executive NI, as well as our expert group within Sport NI is that we cannot deliver any face to face courses for our customers including use of the Hot Rock Climbing Wall.
We know that you and many others like minded folk are very keen to get back on track with your plans to attend and complete a range of personal skills training and qualifications in a range of disciplines.
Believe us when we say we are equally keen to get outside with you and help you reach your goals and complete that journey.
How do we know? Because every day we get emails and phone calls asking when will courses resume and with every NI Executive mention of easing of restrictions the emails and phone calls are more frequent……