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Navigation Skills for Walkers, Hikers and Ramblers
Good navigation skills, whether you are using map and compass with or without a GPS device, can reveal whole new areas of the countryside allowing the average hiker to leave the relative safety of the tourist paths and explore.
With no navigational skills the countryside can rapidly
become a very dangerous place - a place where fatalities are not unknown.
In Hill
Skills > Navigation we aim to provide a growing database
of tutorials that will furnish most walkers with basic navigation skills
- from advice on GPS Devices, identifying the parts of a compass to how
to give a basic grid reference.
Just use the links on the left to access each tutorial.
We plan to update and add topics to this section on a regular basis but if you have a particular area that you would like us to cover, email the
There are two things to remember though:-
Don't leave navigation to others - even the most confident and able people make mistakes
and
Navigation is supposed to be fun (!)
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