Wilderness Navigation Level 1 – Navigating with Maps

Prerequisites:  None

Date Options:

• April 12, 2025
• April 26, 2025

Location: Frontenac Park Office

Cost: $25 

Join The Friends on a one-day course, learning how to navigate trails with only a map.

Topics will cover Information found on a map, Identifying Locations (Grid References & Known Points), Measuring Distance, Understanding & interpreting Contour Lines, Resection (Triangulation) and Relating the map to the ground (O.W.L – objects, water and land features).

You will also learn to determine direction using the sun and will practice your new skills through a 3 Km guided hike along Doe Lake.

Experienced map users will gain new knew knowledge, and students who come on the course with no experience at all will leave confident, and ready to solo hike on marked trails.

NOTE – You do NOT need a map for this course. The Friends will provide you with a map of the park.

Please note that first priority will be given to members of the Friends of Frontenac, who will receive advance notice of our courses via email.  We will then open the course to non-members.  If the course indicates “Out of Stock”, it either has not opened up to the general public yet or is full.

Students are kindly asked to email the Chief Instructor upon purchase to ensure timely passage of information.   dglucas@outlook.com