NNAS Silver Navigator Award - Pendle

Name: NNAS Silver Navigator Award - Pendle
Start: 2024-11-09T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-10T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Barley Picnic Site

Schedule

Sat Nov 09 2024 at 10:00 am to Sun Nov 10 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Barley Picnic Site | Burnley, EN

Abigail's Trails Navigation courses are delivered by Qualified Geography Teacher and Mountain Leader, Abi Thompson.
The Silver National Navigation 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.
Learning with Abi is relaxed and friendly, within a small group of up to 4 people (Silver Award). There will be plenty of time to practice your skills and further your experience out in the Lancashire countryside.
Silver National Navigation Award courses are taught in areas with access to open country and involve periods where you’ll be navigating away from paths and tracks.
The syllabus is designed so that you can:
1. Relate small hills, small valleys, prominent re-entrants and prominent spurs to their corresponding map contours. Use prominent hills, ridges, spurs and valleys as a means of navigation in good visibility.
2. Use landforms and point features to orientate the map and as collecting and catching features.
3. Use a compass to: Accurately follow a bearing; aim off; check the direction of handrails and other linear features.
4. Deviate briefly from a compass bearing to avoid obstacles or difficult terrain and accurately regain the original line.
5. Use back bearings to check route following accuracy.
6. Measure distance on the ground in varied, open terrain using timing and pacing and make practical allowances for any discrepancies.
7. Simplify legs using coarse navigation, attack points and fine navigation.
8. Recognise dangerous or difficult terrain on map and ground.
9. Plan and implement navigational strategies based on the above skills.
10. Maintain route finding accuracy in poor visibility or darkness.
11. Recognise a navigation error within a few minutes and apply appropriate relocation techniques.
12. Understand how personal fitness and nature of terrain affect route choice both at the planning stage and on the ground.
13. Understand the potential consequences of fatigue and physical discomfort in demanding terrain and/or extreme weather conditions.
14. Select appropriate clothing, equipment and first aid items for walking in open country in all weather conditions.
15. Demonstrate an understanding of the Countryside Code, current access legislation and the environmental impact of walkers on the countryside.
16. Understand the responsibilities of walkers towards other countryside interests such as farming, forestry and conservation.
17. Understand how outdoor activities impact on the environment and how that impact can be minimised and sustainable use promoted.
This 2-day course includes both training and assessment for the NNAS Silver Award and costs £130. You will, ideally, have completed the NNAS Bronze Award, however, we also take into account relevant experience. If you are unsure of your suitability or which course would suit you best, please e-mail [email protected].
We cover around 10 - 12 km each day, following a mix of paths and roads, across farmland, through woodland, up hills and over moorland, so a good level of fitness is required.
Kit list, meeting place and course itinerary will be sent out on confirmation of booking.