Everett Navigation Course - Camp Edward

We will be starting our class at the Camp Edward Dining Hall at 8AM. Please arrive early to check in and get your group assignments.

Everett's Basic Navigation Course is a single-day event that teaches how to use a topographic map, compass, and altimeter for back country navigation. The course also emphasizes advance preparation, terrain reckoning, and route finding as a team responsibility. It includes lectures, indoor exercises, and outdoor navigation instruction and hands-on practice.

Sign in starts at 7:30. There you will be assigned to your group for the day. Please be on time, the lectures and classwork will start promptly at 8AM.

Please bring your compass (see required equipment for compass requirements), food, water, pencil, any materials needed for note taking, proper clothing for outdoor wilderness travel (no cotton, jeans or inappropriate shoes). Rain shell, Gaiters, gloves and boots are highly recommended, the outdoor portion can be very wet and muddy and there are many plants with thorns, spines and prickles. Weather can range from mild & sunny to cold & rainy, please be prepared.

After the indoor portion is completed all groups will head out with their group leaders for the field exercises. **Note that the field exercises will total 5-6 miles round trip**. Once each group has completed the exercises they will return to check in. Only when the entire group is accounted for can anyone leave.

Please contact us if there are any questions. Thanks and see you in class!