Skill level Requirement - none

You will be placed into a buddy pair during the Practical application. This is done for safety purposes, and you start learning to work together as a team to handle situation, and over come diversity together. This class will happen rain or shine, be prepared for the worst elements that April has to offer. 

Gear list-

• Note taking gear, Must be pen/Pencil for the practical application. 

• Water source (we will have bottles of water on site but you will need water source before you're sent out to find the points).

• Weather appropriate clothing. We highly recommend brining hiking boots or shoes and a change of socks.

• whistle. 

The objective of this class is to help students understand the following.

• How to read a map, use and understand a Lensatic Compass, Protractor, Pace Counter & Map Markers.
• Understanding Maps, marginal information and symbols, what a grid is, scale and distances.
• We will touch on what is Terrain Association, Navigation in Mountain terrain and compare it to other terrain types in the area the students live in.
• The class will have 2 hour time period on educational, and classroom work that is wrapped up into a practical application portion of the course.

For purchasing a course you will receive one free Genesis T-shirt, when checking out place add the shirt size you want to cart and it will appear as free. One course purchase equals one free shirt.

Once your course ticket is purchased we will contact you via PHONE and/or EMAIL with instructions to our location that we will be holding our class. We have several different locations. So please make sure you have your contact information on your order so we can reach out to you to provide student course material.