Improving map reading skills

[mt goat russell]

A good way off improving ur map reading is doing a bit off night nav make the legs short & bild up a story on the way off what should be happing around yea if any 1 fancys a night off nigt nav give me a shout....

[Mourneman]

just caught that post heading out the door ,dundrum cache ,new one,wats it's name mate?

[LandyLiam]

just caught that post heading out the door ,dundrum cache ,new one,wats it's name mate?

just back at the pc now so you may be too late

Dundrum Coastal Path 1 :
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC34R73

A good way off improving ur map reading is doing a bit off night nav make the legs short & bild up a story on the way off what should be happing around yea if any 1 fancys a night off nigt nav give me a shout....

yes i'd be up for a wee go at that some evening, any excuse to get into the hills    i see you don't even need a gps to find my geocaches    i'll have to put out a tricky one just for you 

[mt goat russell]

just caught that post heading out the door ,dundrum cache ,new one,wats it's name mate?

just back at the pc now so you may be too late

Dundrum Coastal Path 1 :
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC34R73

A good way off improving ur map reading is doing a bit off night nav make the legs short & bild up a story on the way off what should be happing around yea if any 1 fancys a night off nigt nav give me a shout....

yes i'd be up for a wee go at that some evening, any excuse to get into the hills    i see you don't even need a gps to find my geocaches    i'll have to put out a tricky one just for you 

M8 u dont even need to go into the hills there is a great place round spelck were u can do a bit. Well u make the nxt cache alot harder that was to easy...lol

[LandyLiam]

That's where i was planning to take the scouts for some navigation practice, in the daylight though! there are a few geocaches round there that you will definitely need the gps for 

[mt goat russell]

That's where i was planning to take the scouts for some navigation practice, in the daylight though! there are a few geocaches round there that you will definitely need the gps for 

There r alot off things around there to find day or night so me/  john/ urself we'll get out some nite soon

[LandyLiam]

mondays and tuesdays usually suit me as i often have to drop my son to work at 7pm and pick him up at 11pm so that would suit a few hours in the hills, but i never jknow what he's working until the rota is made on sunday evening

[Daithi2004]

I did a brilliant refresher course in Tollymore National outdoor Centre. I did the advance course. The day we did the course was a very sunny day. The Next I was out with my walking group and we were walking from Pigeon over to Cock Mtn in pure mist (pea soup). I was able to put what I learned into practise and it worked. Just had to use the GPS once but I knew where I was most of the time. The GPS is good but could let you down. If you are going to get a GPS, make sure you learn the Map and Compass first. I have the basic extrex GPS.

[RedLeader]

What did they charge for that? I'd be tempted to get a few of the peeps together and go do it.

I did a brilliant refresher course in Tollymore National outdoor Centre. I did the advance course. The day we did the course was a very sunny day. The Next I was out with my walking group and we were walking from Pigeon over to Cock Mtn in pure mist (pea soup). I was able to put what I learned into practise and it worked. Just had to use the GPS once but I knew where I was most of the time. The GPS is good but could let you down. If you are going to get a GPS, make sure you learn the Map and Compass first. I have the basic extrex GPS.

[Oisín]

http://www.outdoorni.com/events/2782/night-navigation/

Seen this and thought it might be of use to some.

[Mourneman]

nice one Oisin,think i'll put my name down for that,cheers bud

[LandyLiam]

looks good value, but i see it starts at 2pm, isn't it bright then 

i ended up doing a little night nav myself tonight, crackin evening, breezy in places but plenty of stars out and a nice orange glow off the odd low cloud

[Spud]

Where did u head to Liam?

[Daithi2004]

What did they charge for that? I'd be tempted to get a few of the peeps together and go do it.

I did a brilliant refresher course in Tollymore National outdoor Centre. I did the advance course. The day we did the course was a very sunny day. The Next I was out with my walking group and we were walking from Pigeon over to Cock Mtn in pure mist (pea soup). I was able to put what I learned into practise and it worked. Just had to use the GPS once but I knew where I was most of the time. The GPS is good but could let you down. If you are going to get a GPS, make sure you learn the Map and Compass first. I have the basic extrex GPS.

I was involved in the running of this course throught the UFRC whereby we got a group people from the some of the Afiliated Walking Clubs in NI along with some ROI members. They charged us £50 and we charged the members £40. Here is the link to their offer http://www.ufrc-online.co.uk/pdf%20files/Microsoft_Word__Intro_navigation_UFRC.pdf. We offered an Advance Course and a Basic. We had 8 for the Advance and 17 for the basic. They will ony offer the course if you have up to 8 people. The price is negotiable. If there were enough of you from this forum, I am sure you could organise this. It is worth doing.

[LandyLiam]

Where did u head to Liam?

It was in the trassey track area, a place I know fairly well, in fact I didn't even have to use the map very much, but of course it is all so different in the dark, some of those tracks are hard enough to find in the daylight! Big tip is to bring a good head AND spare batteries, my teammate had poor batteries and he struggled, I even nearly lost him at one point! My torch got low near the end of the exercise and it got a bit tricky but was heading back to the vehicle by then anyway. Also bring a spare hand torch just in case, I recommend the x21, google it, its amazing !