Wilderness Skills

Land Navigation

10 hour course for L.E. SWAT teams or rural Officers/Deputies who may have to navigate through terrain to conduct a search fpr suspects or missing persons.

Map, compass, protractor, GPS and phone apps working together.

Course Info

PREREQUISITES

NA

Equipment Requirements
  • Comfortable field clothes
  • Small backpack to carry water and supplies
  • Boonie hat, note taking materials if available
  • Silva Ranger or Suunto MC-2 compass
  • 1:24 mapping protractor

COURSE LENGTH: 1 Day

COURSE HOURS: 10 Hours

COURSE TOPICS:
This course covers
  • Land Navigation
    • How to read maps
    • Latitude longitude vs UTM vs MGRS
    • GPS primer
    • Phone apps
  • Outdoors
    • Terrain analysis
    • Orienting map with compass to the terrain
    • Land Nav point to point course

COURSE COST: $250 per attendee

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