Navigation Course, More than Mountains, Lake District
Starting from the bunkhouse Nick (the instructor) introduced us to the 4Ds of direction, distance, description and duration. Using these categories Nick got us to implement these in practice in order to navigate and plan our route to the walnar scar track and up to white pike. Repeating this process several times we went across to white maiden before descending attempting (and largely failing) to try and find an old path which crossed our route. On our way up Caw Nick got us to implement our compasses and use bearings to send us in search of ring contours so that we could get a handle on the greater intricacies of map navigation. All members on the course agreed it was a good refresher of previous knowledge as well as an introduction to concepts they had not met before. All participants should be able to guide walks more confidently in future.