Practical Navigation | Intermediate to Advanced | Follow up to Online MM Navigation | Dates: Summer and Autumn | 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:

13:00 to 17:00 [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

See all our dates and locations below:

• Saturday 22nd August | Area: Lingmoor Fell, Little Langdale | Meeting at: Chapel Stile, Great Langdale | Meeting Time: 13:00
• Saturday 5th September | Area: Greenside Mines & surrounds | Meeting at: Greenside Mines CA11 0QR | Meeting Time: 13:00
• Sunday 4th October | Area: Longstile & Skiddaw | Meeting at: Latrigg Car Park | Meeting Time: 13:00
• Saturday 10th October | Area: Fell Foot, Chipping, Lancs | Meeting at ??? | Meeting time: 13:00

• 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
• Face Mask/Buff
  
• Hand Sanitiser

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.

**Please note: If you feel any CV19 symptoms prior to the course, please DO NOT attend. We are more than happy to move your course date to another session later in the summer, once you have gone through the 14 day self-isolation**