News from Peak Navigation Courses

Peak Navigation Courses Dates for our NNAS training and Assessment Courses 2013. Peak Navigation Courses have now finalised the dates for their NNAS courses in 2013. Our cost for these 2 day NNAS Courses is £85 (non residential). Learning to use a compass Bronze NNAS:              25 th and 26 th May 12 th and 13 th October 9 th and 10 th November both days based from Foolow  in the Peak District Silver NNAS:                          1 st and 2 nd June 19 th and 20 th October 16 th and 17 th November day 1, based from Foolow;   day 2, near Edale For the Bronze and Silver courses, you don’t have to commit to a whole weekend, you can mix and match the dates to suit you,     i.e. for bronze you could have day 1 on 25 th May and day 2 on 13 th October. Go...

NNAS Courses being run by Peak Navigation Courses Peak Navigation Courses are pleased to now be delivering NNAS (National Navigation Awards) in The Peak District.   We have recently been accredited as NNAS trainers and will be adding a full list of courses into our autumn programme.   It will however be possible to gain the silver award by arrangement (completing both our Introduction to Moorland Navigation Course and our Intermediate Navigation Course with some assessment built in). Locating our position on the map The Bronze training and assessment will be a two day course based from the village of Foolow.   The two days can be consecutive or spaced out over different weekends.   Day one being our normal 1 st Steps to map reading and navigation course but day two being a newly devised day specific to the bronze syllabus and allowing time for assessment. Learning to use a compass The silver training and assessment will follow the pre...

Navigation in the Snow Peak Navigation Courses run navigation training throughout the year in The Peak district National Park.   For the past two weeks we have been enjoying (?) some snowy conditions which give a different slant to walking and navigating in the hills. Yesterdays “Intermediate” Navigation Course went ahead albeit with an altered itinerary. Just walking in deep snow takes substantially more effort which is compounded when walking off path and through steep terrain.   There was further heavy snowfall through the night before the course and only four of the eight booked made it through (though this did include students attending from Cambridge and Luton). Some "re-location" near the bottom of Jacob's Ladder Then it was off path taking various zig zags from one attack point to another through “The Cloughs” to locate the wreckage of two old aircraft wrecks. A further steep ascent to The Wool Packs led us to the Edge Path which we f...