After a recent trip to Scotland with Noel O'Leary from Irish Adventures, I couldn't help but jump at the chance when he suggested working with bishopstown hill walkers on a navigation day.
I was impressed with the amount of interest from our members and all spaces were soon filled.
Once we had decided that the date was to be 25th April, we all meet up in Killarney and commenced our days training and although the weather threatened to get miserable at times it remained fairly pleasant for the whole day.
Having split up into two groups both myself and Noel took a group each and covered such navigation techniques as pacing and distances, naismiths formula and contour recognition
After stopping for lunch we exchanged groups and went on to navigate over broken ground and introduced compass bearings. We managed to cover quite alot in the time we had and I feel confident that our members came away from there day with a larger understanding and appreciation of navigating.
Noel was as organised and professional as I've always found him to be and I hope that he provides us with another navigation day again in the future.
Irish Adventures provides Mountain skills courses as well as many others and more recently Noel is organising the Dingle Adventure race to take place on 12th June.
For further information about Irish Adventures go to http://www.irishadventures.net
