Navigation Course
On-Trail Navigation
Learn and practice key skills needed to maintain an ongoing awareness of where you are and how to find yourself if you get lost on even the most complicated trail system.
Contacts
- Rolling Enrollment: Mon, Dec 16, 2024 - Sun, Sep 21, 2025
- Committee: Seattle Navigation Committee
- Members: $105.00 Guests: $130.00
- Availability: 88 (120 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
This hands-on course, tailored to on-trail adventurers, provides information on key skills and tools, and hands-on practice on trail, to become confident reading a topographic map against the features of the terrain around you, get important information from a compass and altimeter, and maintain clear awareness of where you are as well as how to find yourself if you get temporarily misplaced.
Register for one workshop and one field trip set within the same month.
Badges you will earn:
On-Trail Navigation Course
This course has no scheduled activities.
Baseplate compass with adjustable declination (see http://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/compass-declination.html, http://www.thecompassstore.com/comwitaddec.html)
Green Trails Mt Si NCRA 206S (rev 2021) map
SmartPhone (for both workshop and field trip)
Laptop or tablet (optional, for workshop)
Day Pack with urban oriented 10 Essentials - Field Trip
Emergency whistle