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AMC NH Chapter Map & Compass Weekend
This weekend long map and compass instruction aims to help participants become expert with Map & Compass. We will teach you about topographic maps and the protractor/orienteering compass and how to use both. Instruction will be in small experiential learning groups of 2 instructors with 8 participants.
You will learn How to:
• Use a map and compass together to get from one point to another.
• Take Field to map and map to field calculations.
• Use the 5 D’s of map reading
• Map description(s)
• Determine distances; elevation gain/loss
• Read details provided on various types of maps
• Determine directions on a map; north, south, east, west, direction of travel, and what direction objects are located in reference to where you are.
• Different designations that appear on a map and what they mean.
• Use a protractor/orienteering compass and about the different parts of an orienteering compass and their proper use.
• Estimate time that it might take to hike a trail vs. doing a bushwhack
• Add or subtract declination when determining a route using a map & compass.
• Orient a map in the field using the compass.
• Determine where you are on a map using a method known as triangulation
• Determine your pace to use in determining distances you may have covered/traveled.
• Take sight bearings.
• Successfully be able to navigate around objects such as a pond, bad area of blow down, swamp, cliff, etc. and stay on your bearing.
• To calculate/take back bearings
• Become proficient at following a bearing through a wooded landscape.
This will be a fun filled weekend learning how to master map and compass use. Other than a few group mini lectures we will do nothing but map and compass work. We will have learning session both in and out of doors. Expect to spend about 6 hours outside on Saturday and 4 or 5 hours on Sunday.
If you want to master map & compass use we hope you will sign up for this great class!
2.10.18
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