Basic Land Navigation workshop

PLEASE TAKE NOTE: THIS IS A MULTI-DAY EVENT
ALL the dates listed are required to complete the workshop.

Thursdays, September 18, September 25, and October 2 - 6:30pm - 9:00pm, St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, 27475 Five Mile Rd, Livonia, MI 48154.

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Saturday, October 11 (9 AM - 6 PM) - Sunday, October 12 (9 AM - 3 PM) Burns Cabin #1, Waterloo State Recreation Area, Chelsea, MI
YOU ARE EXPECTED TO ATTEND ALL THE DATES LISTED. This is an extensive, hands-on map & compass workshop.

Basic Land Navigation provides a thorough introduction to map & compass navigation. You will learn:

• Map reading
• Terrain visualization
• How compasses work & how to use them
• Taking & plotting compass bearings
• Finding your location using triangulation
• The "three norths"
• Declination & how to account for it in order to navigate accurately
• Navigation strategies
• Route planning basics

The best thing about this workshop: the volunteers. You will get individual attention from an outstanding team of 4-6 experienced workshop leaders. They can do more than navigate, these people can teach. Jeff McWilliams and Tim Davis have been leading this workshop since 2010. Participant size is limited to 12 in order to ensure a maximum student: volunteer leader ratio of 4:1.

The other best thing about this workshop: practice, practice and more practice. To help participants master and retain the material, we spread the workshop out over several days and build in extensive and varied practice exercises, both indoors and in the field. Highlights include a 1.5-hour hike focusing on topographic map/terrain recognition skills and a 3-hour team orienteering-type exercise.

GPS navigation is NOT covered.

Cost: $80 for Solar Outdoors members when paying directly via Cash, Check (payable to Solar Outdoors, or Venmo (@jjmcwill2003), or $85 when paying via Meetup. This pays for a book, room rental, binder with additional map, handout materials and exercises, and the use of the Burns Cabin as a center of operations and a place to sleep if desired.

The workshop fee does not include your state parks motor vehicle permit or meals.

Prerequisites: None, other than decent physical condition. In this workshop you will gain hands-on experience navigating in a wilderness environment, culminating with a ~3-hour cross-country route-finding exercise; consider your physical condition before signing up.

Due to the cumulative nature of the material covered, no "excused absences" are possible.

Questions: Jeff McWilliams, email (preferred): jeff.mcwilliams@gmail.com or (248) 321-1987.

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