How accurate does navigation need to be to pass a Mountain Leader assessment?
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มี.ค. 2021
- People often stress about how accurate their navigation needs to be to pass a Mountain Leader assessment. In this video I aim to boost your confidence by talking you through what level is expected.
- แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Hi. Thanks for concise video on nav at ML. You've taken the fear out of it for me. Yes, it's a good way to look at it, cognisance rather than always absolute. I've a very good MS and will get chance to train for leader grade at a certain point shortly.
Hello, I'm really glad that you liked the video and it has helped to calm your nerves about assessment. Best of luck with with it all.
Examples of things I was expected to find on assesment. An old mine drift about 2m wide 3m deep and 10m long, shown on the map as a blip in a contour line (1:25K), nice clear day form a summit 250m above and 900m away - relatively easy.
An old mine shelf, 20m+ wide 200m long and flat in an otherwise resonably steep sloping hillside, shown as kinks in the contour lines (1 :50K), from 2km away approx same altitude, typicaly nasty welsh day, lumpy terrain - Quite a challange, go lucky, hit it dead on the end, first go - found out afterwards, because of its size fail to find this one and fail.....you could have a bash at it for an hour or so and still be ok though, didn't need to just walk on to it.
Real world work example - Col de la Seigne between France and Italy - No Phone reception and no downloaded maps so couldn't just cheat n use an app. Its 1km wide and 5km deep but with some cliffs you'd like to avoid. Early season so its all snow, the cloud drops and you can only see 5 of your group of 12 who are all near anough to touch each other! - General bearing, keep a close eye on the aspect of your terrain vs bearing - stubbed my toe on the trig point! It may be a 1km wide col, but its bowl shaped all the way.
I think deferring on the navigation element for one wrong point out of the whole week would possibly be a bit harsh myself. I try to encourage people not to get too stressed if they make a mistake, but acknowledge it and move on. After all, it is the whole picture of someone's ability to lead a group that is important.
@@idrisddraig2 it's great using land features to help you keep on track. It makes things so much easier.
When are the courses likely to run again? Thanks.
Wow, that was a quick comment! We get the next announcement here in Wales this Friday. We are all hoping that courses will be able to start again at some point in April. Fingers crossed the news on Friday will bring some answers.
Within 5m in any conditions.
Just subscribed from referral from @joeybklyn ❤