Find It Checkpoint Challenge

Nav coaching is on today (Wed, 22 Jan) at 17h30 to 18h30 on the lawns next to Trail Kiosk.

Last week we used cone grids to practice the fundamental skill of keeping your map orientated. We also considered the relationship between objects as a guide to knowing where we are, and also using significant features (the red cones in the big 7x7 grid) to find our way.

After learning these skills, you are ready to handle an actual map.

In the session today, we will focus on awareness of our surroundings, map orientation, our relationship to features in the terrain, and how to judge distance (which is useful especially as maps come with distance scales). You don’t need to bring anything other than your thinking caps 😊

If you missed last week, come anyway.

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A couple of photos from the Find It Checkpoint Challenge. You get 5 minutes of free time at the start to look at the map and plan where you want to go. It is well worth using this time to familiarise yourself with the map, look at the allocation and distribution of points, and to plan the first part of your route.

Thank you to all the participants - wonderful to see so many of you there yesterday evening for the Find It Checkpoint Challenge. Great to see so many children out there too.

I'll post some route tracks a little later.
With thanks to Garden route Trail Running, The Mountain Community, Trail Kiosk at GroundZero and AR Gaiters , and also to Liz de Speville for her assistance. Emma was out there taking photos for GTR - thank you for this too.

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Percentage chance of rain for this afternoon is down to only 30%. As George rain goes, anything that fall is likely to be spitting rather than rain-rain. The cooler temperature today is very welcome.

See you later at Trail Kiosk at GroundZero with Garden route Trail Running , The Mountain Community and AR Gaiters.

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