mountain leadership

This report is on the weekend expedition and the preparation to Snowdonia. It will cover planning, organisation and experiences of the weekend spent away.

Certain topics were covered before we spent a night away on our expedition. A lot of time was spent on navigation. Navigation is an important skill, which must be learnt. Otherwise while walking it can be very dangerous as it has been proved recently with people losing their lives due to bad navigating. Navigation is finding your way around an area using tools such as maps and compasses A compass uses the earth’s magnetic field to detect north and south. It is used to take a bearing but mainly during bad visibility as like in the night or in the mist. We were given certain tasks to do with in our lectures to do with navigating with compasses. We were taught to use are compass like this. “To take a compass bearing from the map and follow it on the ground. Place the long edge of the compass along the line of travel, then turn th...