PROGRAM
Our experts will help you expand your knowledge on cartography and improve your orienteering skills, enabling you to plan safe outings. The course will enable you to fully learn how to use the GPS, an increasingly indispensable tool in a variety of outdoor activities and everyday life.
The course may be more or less in-depth depending on your requests. On request it is also possible to combine theory and practice modules of in a more advanced course and achieve a comprehensive training in all matters by extending the duration to a whole weekend. We also organize customized courses for groups of hikers and any kind of groups/associations practising outdoor activities.
GROUP DEPARTURES
Meeting point: meeting in suitable location, to be defined based on participants and their needs.
Theory
- The GPS system
- How GPS works
- Waypoints, tracks and routes
- Topography: the coordinate systems
- Topography: the Map Datum
How to:
- Plot the position
- Mark a Waypoint
- Record a track
- Take a course
Pratice
- Taking a fix
- Marking a Waypoint
- Navigating toward a Waypoint
- Recording a track
- Following a track
- Entering a route
- Navigating a route
Equipment
- We will give specific information depending on the chosen location and season
- Personal GPS (required)
Clothing
- We will give specific information depending on the chosen location and season
Meeting point: meeting in suitable location, to be defined based on participants and their needs.
Theory
- The GPS system
- How GPS works
- Waypoints, tracks and routes
- Topography: the coordinate systems
- Topography: the Map Datum
How to:
- Plot the position
- Mark a Waypoint
- Record a track
- Take a course
Pratice
- Taking a fix
- Marking a Waypoint
- Navigating toward a Waypoint
- Recording a track
- Following a track
- Entering a route
- Navigating a route
Equipment
- We will give specific information depending on the chosen location and season
- Personal GPS (required)
Clothing
- We will give specific information depending on the chosen location and season
DETAILS
RATES
- the assistance of a UIAGM certified Mountain Guide
- liability insurance
The rate does not include
- research and rescue insurance with UVGAM coverage (recommended): €5 per person for 3 days
- the hiring of any personal equipment (avalanche beacon, shovel and probe): €15/day per person while supplies last
- tickets for lift facilities
- the Mountain Guide’s expenses (lifts, transfers, meals and accommodation) to be covered by participants
- transfers, meals and accommodation
- anything that is not mentioned under "The rate includes"
