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Location: Wicklow Mountains:Start time: 10.00.
Cost : €75
If you know your way around a map and compass but are not sure if you could get off a hill safely if the hill fog came down. If you want to be able to navigate accurately away from paths, and on featureless terrain, then this is the course for you.
Booking on this one day course is essential as spaces are limited. To book please go to:
https://mountaintrails.ie/navigation-courses/improvers-navigation-course/
or call +353 86 4466997.
Meeting point: Lead Mines Car Park, Glendasan 10.00am
In this 1 day course we will reprise some basic navigation techniques and cover the more advanced skills of route finding, including:
Devising a navigation strategy.
Pacing and timing over varying terrain.
Walking on a compass bearing to locate a feature.
Using navigation techniques including aiming off, tick features, catching features and attack points.
Interpret contour features, large and small, on the map and on the ground.
Relocation strategies.
This course is run at a maximum ratio of 1:6 to ensure each client gets the most out of the day.
Equipment required:
Walking boots or waterproof shoes and waterproof clothing are essential; hiking trousers are advised, (no jeans please); spare warm layer; hat and gloves; lunch and/or snacks; water or juice drink, (1.5 litres); small rucksack to carry it all in.
Maps and compasses can be provided if required.
How to get to the start:
To get to Laragh from Dublin take the N11 heading south. Get off at Kilmacanogue, (R775), and head for Roundwood . Go through Roundwood, then Annamoe and on to Laragh. Leave Laragh on the R756 towards Hollywood (Wicklow Gap). The car park is on the left next to old mine workings.
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