GPS Navigation Weekends

These residential weekends at the YHA Borrowdale are very popular with our customers being very reasonable priced and set in fabulous walking country as well as being great fun with good company.

2009 has been our forth season of running these residential events at Borrowdale YHA, located in one of the most scenic valleys in the Lake-District with great walking right out of the door. They will provide action packed and fun weekends with opportunities to learn how to use Map, Compass, and GPS and combine all this with Digital Mapping Software. There will be opportunities to acquire new skills, have fun and become involved in the growing sport of Geocaching

We are working on next years prorgramme over the next few weeks. There will be a GPS Navigation Weekend in the programme. Details will be relaesed very soon.

Run as series of workshops each one run by one of the GPST experts. The difficulty for those attending is to choose which workshop or practical experience will improve their navigation skills the most, workshops are designed to improve basic skills in a practical hands on way.

Follow up the skills learnt following any one of a series of Geotrails set in the Borrowdale Valley, either with one of the team on hand for guidance or strike out on your own.

    • Learn to use Map & Compass
    • Practical GPS Workshops
    • Digital Mapping Software Presentations & Workshops
    • Learn how to transfer data/maps to a GPS
    • GPS to Borrow
    • Accompanied Trails at high & low level  
    • Real caches to locate in fabulous walking country
    • Geotrails to follow 
    • Learn about the growing sport of Geocaching.
    • Interesting presentations
    • Saturday night fun with Tony's Quiz

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