Mountain/OMM Practical Navigation | Intermediate to Advanced | Follow up to Online MM Navigation | Dates: Winter and Spring | Price: £45

• 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 knowledgable about their subject
• Mountain Marathon and/or Orienteering Maps of the area you are training in

• 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 re-location skills
• How to read the map whilst on the move using acute and periphery vision

• Anyone who has under taken the Online Mountain Marathon Navigation sessions with Mountain Run
• Runners wanting to develop their Mountain Marathon navigation skills
• Runners who are interested in solo challenges which require good to excellent navigation techniques
• Runners developing their navigation skills from basic/intermediate to a more advanced level
• Anyone wanting to take their navigation to the next level [basic understanding needed]

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
• Night navigation coming off the fell/hill

See all our dates and locations below:

• Sunday 21st February | Area: Long Mynd | Meeting Time: 09:00

• Saturday 17th April | Area: Long Mynd | Meeting Time: 09:00

• Waterproof jacket & trousers (taped seams please)
• Spare L/S base layer, Primaloft layer or similar (no cotton please)
• Hat or buff
• Gloves
• Hill food/Lunch Snacks
• Race Vest/Small Pack to put it all in.
• 1;25'000 map of the area you are attending
• Compass with base plate
• Trail/Fell running shoes.
• An open mind and willingness to learn

Please be aware we might be moving at slow speeds at some points during the day: please account for this in your clothing selection.

Check the weather forecast in advance of your course and come prepared.