Outdoor Knowledge & Skills
Prepare for your outdoor activities with supplementary courses to to build your knowledge and abilities. These courses will be of value whatever you like to do in the mountains.
Navigation & Outdoor Skills
Stay found wherever you go
Plan great trips and never get lost again with skills learned in our comprehensive navigation programs.
Navigation
Learn the key skills to plan your own trips and keep track along the way using a variety of physical and electronic tools. Start with an introductory map reading course and then continue to build your toolkit with our GPS/GNSS and other courses.
Intro to Navigation (Paper and Digital Maps)
Learn the basics of navigation including the use of landforms, trail markers, route information, and maps of all types. Options for both paper and electronic maps will be introduced, including an overview of current apps and online tools and their common features.
GPS/GNSS Navigation
Take the next step - learn the basic functions of GPS/GNSS and how to apply the technology to backcountry navigation. Practice finding your location, marking waypoints, creating and following a route, and saving and interpreting the data recorded on a trip using handheld units and smartphone apps.
Prerequisite: Intro to Navigation (Maps) or equivalent map reading course
Compass Navigation
Supplement your navigation skills with compass use. Over a morning class and afternoon outdoor practice, learn how to interpret a compass including cardinal directions, bearings, and declination. Integrate your map and compass knowledge through practice for effective navigation across any terrain.
Prerequisite: Intro to Navigation (Maps) or equivalent map reading course
Bear & Wildlife Safety
Don't let your fear of bears, cougars or other animals keep you out of the backcountry. In this 2-hour lecture, learn about bear signs and behaviours, how to avoid them and what to do when you do meet an animal on the trail.
Prerequisite: none. Includes: instructor.
Prefer to let us do the navigating? Sign up for a Guided Day Hike
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