Navigation Courses in the Lake District
Our navigation courses will give you the skills and confidence to get out and explore the hills alone or with friends and family. We offer nationally recognised NNAS courses at Bronze and Silver Level or our own map reading courses specially designed for you. All of our navigation courses are based in the beautiful surroundings of the Lake District and we always try to make sure you have a wonderful day out in the hills as well as learning how to read a map and use a compass.
NNAS Navigation Courses
The National Navigation Award Scheme was set up to enable
individuals to develop sound navigation practice including planning
routes.
At More than Mountains we run
Bronze Award courses for candidates with little or no
navigational knowledge and
Silver Award courses for those with more experience.
To find out dates, prices and which course would be best suited to
your needs please visit our National Navigation Award Scheme
Bronze and
Silver pages.
Personalised Navigation Courses
We can tailor our own navigation courses to suit anyone and are happy to
run courses lasting one to five days.
Let us know what you have done before and what you want to achieve and we will design a course just for you. If there is a particular skill you would like to learn or somewhere in the Lake District you have always wanted to navigate to then let us know and we will make sure it is part of your course.
£100/day (£75/half day)
(Prices are per instructor. Each instructor can teach 1
to 6 people.)
Articles on Navigation
by Jill Cannon Jones
Why is it important to
learn to read a map?
Which path should I take?
More than Navigation
Navigation and map reading are skills and therefore can be learned
and practiced. Like most skills they are not easily acquired from books or websites
but if you would like to do some reading before your course here are
a few recommendations.
Books we recommend
Mountain Navigation by Peter Cliff
This book was first published in 1978 and does look a little dated
but is still an excellent guide to navigation. It is only 57 pages
long but it covers all aspects of navigation, is well written and
easy to understand. If you would like a book purely about
navigation then we suggest this one.
Hill Walking by Steve Long
This is the official handbook of the Mountain Leader scheme and
covers everything you'll need to know about walking in the hills. It
is more colourful and modern looking than the Peter Cliff book and
covers a much wider range of topics including camping skills and
weather. It is written with instructors in mind but is an
excellent guide for anyone who wants to go out into the hills.
