Mountain Navigation Course
This course equips participants with essential navigation skills for mountainous terrain, focusing on map and compass use, risk assessment, and data management to ensure safe and effective route planning in challenging conditions.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Mountain Navigation Course provides practical skills to plan and carry out safe, efficient routes in tough terrain. You will master using maps, compasses, altimeters, and GPS, navigate in bad visibility, analyze land features, manage risks, and create 3-day field plans. Learn to record precise location data, ensure quality checks, and confidently reach far-off spots in western US mountain areas.
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Develop skills
- Mountain risk management: make quick, professional decisions on whether to go or not and safety measures.
- Advanced topo reading: understand contour lines, slopes, and dangers to plan safe paths.
- Precision GPS and compass use: record accurate waypoints, tracks, and directions.
- Low-visibility navigation: stay on course using steps, timing, and altimeter readings.
- Field data QA/QC: connect notes, photos, and GPS into dependable location datasets.
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