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Day Walks
As
part of the training for the Award you will undertake two Day
Walks. These are to improve your map reading skills on the
first day and to reinforce those skills and familiarise you
with the area in which we will undertake our expedition on the
second day walk.
The first day walk will
be held at Frodsham click on the maps button for an OS
map
The second day walk will
be near Ruthin
Remember to use Multimap any time you
need an OS map. Using the expand map icon < and f11 (full
screen) gives large map extracts down to 1:25000
scale.
You
will need strong shoes or preferably boots, a packed lunch and
a waterproof top. Don't forget your
weather forecast , you can navigate to the
right page.
The
contact number for days and expeditions is 07933 011
280
You
will be well prepared for the walk with maps and route cards
but a preview of the walk can be seen on the links
below
First Day Walk: Frodsham
Second Day Walk:
Rhydymwyn
Course content
These aspects of the
Common Training Syllabus for all Bronze
Ventures will be covered on these days
Practical Map Skills
Setting the map by inspection (two methods)
Locating position from the map
Determining geographical direction and direction of
travel from the map
Checking the direction of paths using the set map
Identifying features in the countryside by using the
map
Locating features marked on the map in the countryside
Planning a route, preparing a simple route card
Following a planned
route
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