Navigation: Techniques and skills for walkers

This guide is a must-have for all walkers, providing a clear and comprehensive guide to navigation techniques. It covers scales and grids, map symbols and contours, compasses, bearings, navigation on the hill, route planning, and night and bad weather navigation. It also incorporates new content on walking with a GPS device and practical exercises to help practitioners develop their skills.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 152 pages
Publication date: 25 March 2022
Publisher: Cicerone Press

This conveniently sized guide is an invaluable point of reference for all walkers. Written by an author with a wealth of experience teaching navigation skills, it provides a clear and comprehensive guide to the key techniques, giving you the confidence to navigate successfully with map and compass and to plan and execute your own routes. All topics are clearly referenced and easy to find. Chapters cover scales and grids, map symbols and contours, compasses, bearings, navigation on the hill, route planning and night and bad weather navigation. This new edition also incorporates new content on walking with a GPS device, with notes on how technology can complement map and compass. The text is illustrated with explanatory photos and diagrams as well as extracts from real maps and map keys, and throughout the guide, practical exercises are suggested to help you practise and develop your skills. Perfect both for novices seeking an introduction to navigation and also those wishing to brush up on old skills, this book is an indispensable companion to mastering the essential techniques. These valuable skills will enhance not only your safety but also your enjoyment of the outdoors.

This conveniently sized guide is an invaluable point of reference for all walkers.

Written by an author with a wealth of experience teaching navigation skills, it provides a clear and comprehensive guide to the key techniques, giving you the confidence to navigate successfully with map and compass and to plan and execute your own routes.

All topics are clearly referenced and easy to find.

Chapters cover scales and grids, map symbols and contours, compasses, bearings, navigation on the hill, route planning and night and bad weather navigation.

This new edition also incorporates new content on walking with a GPS device, with notes on how technology can complement map and compass.

The text is illustrated with explanatory photos and diagrams as well as extracts from real maps and map keys, and throughout the guide, practical exercises are suggested to help you practise and develop your skills.

Perfect both for novices seeking an introduction to navigation and also those wishing to brush up on old skills, this book is an indispensable companion to mastering the essential techniques.

These valuable skills will enhance not only your safety but also your enjoyment of the outdoors.

Weight: 172g
Dimension: 103 x 159 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781852848910
Edition number: 2 Revised edition