Intermediate Silver Award
Schedule
Sat, 19 Oct, 2024 at 09:00 am to Sun, 20 Oct, 2024 at 04:00 pm
Location
The King's Head Inn | South Bank, EN
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The Silver Navigator Award develops the navigation skills acquired at the Bronze level. It adds skills required to navigate to features and places some distance from paths and tracks. It teaches accurate compass work. It will also teach you to select the suitable navigational techniques to cross open country. Silver NNAS courses are taught in areas with access to open country and involve periods where you’ll be navigating away from paths and tracksIf you would like to discuss this course for a club, society or other group of people, please get in touch to discuss options and prices
Where they are Run:
The courses are run on the magnificent Cleveland Hills on the North York Moors National Park.
We meet at The Kings Head Inn at 0900 in Newton-under-Roseberry at the start of a course. This sits at the bottom of one of the most iconic hills on the North York Moors - Roseberry Topping, or 'The Yorkshire Matterhorn' as it's affectionately named. If you are travelling from afar, I'd recommend staying at the Inn for the duration of the course. There is plenty of other places to stay in nearby Guisborough, Stokesley or Great Ayton.
For day 2 we meet at Clay Bank, higher up on the moors - indeed, one of the north western access points to the Moors! Here we are straight out on the hills.
What the course involves:
There is a very brief indoor introduction to the course indoors over a brew on the first morning we meet. But we are mainly out on the hills learning the practical tools and skills in the real environment.
You have access to a bite-size video series which covers the syllabus and this will introduce many of the topics we practice outdoors. They also serve as a useful reminder resource for afterwards!
The instructor:client ratio is 1:8 with a minimum of 3 clients to ensure that everyone gets the most benefit from the course. Peer-experience and sharing is an important aspect.
Building on the skills covered in the Bronze Award course the Silver Navigator Award looks at going cross country using compass bearings and other poor visibility techniques.
There is a very short home paper and route planning exercise that forms part of the course. I've always included it as planning (and confidently following) your own routes is something most people have said they want to get from the course. It is now part of the accreditation.
By the end of the course, you will have a good understanding of:
- Using finer detail features to orientate the map and navigate
- Using a compass to follow bearings and confirm the route
- More advanced navigation strategies, including coarse and fine navigation
- Recognising dangers and difficult terrain on the map.
- Navigating in poor visibility
- Recognising errors and relocating
- Understanding how route planning is affected by fitness and terrain
- Understand how weather and terrain affect you
- Selecting clothing for the walk
- The countryside code and the walker's responsibility to the environment
You will need to have completed the Silver Navigator Award if you want to go on to do the Gold Award.
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Where is it happening?
The King's Head Inn, The Green,Nunthorpe, South Bank, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
