Map & Compass

CLASS DESCRIPTION

  AZ ADVENTURE SCHOOL

Hiking & Backpacking orienteering made easy. Learn all the Basics of navigating the backcountry using a compass, map and your wits.

 

3.5 Hours             12 Student Max             Level: Beginner & Intermediate             Price: $45

 

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How to find your way, find where you are and find the way to help in an emergency! You will learn and understand all the basics of map & compass use for backcountry navigation.

You will learn:

• Lost-Proofing & Wayfinding Skills to aid compass use
• Understanding the baseplate compass and how to use it
• Learn to read a topographic map
• The techniques that make it easy
• Understand true north and magnetic north (declination) and how to account for it
• Use a compass to take a bearing, plot your position on a map, and understand a route plan
• Baselines, backstops, aiming off, triangulating position and intersection options
• How to identify and use an Emergency Azimuths

 

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 CLASS SIZE is kept small (12 attendees max) to facilitate questions, individual attention and safe practices during the pandemic if in-store. Masks are required in-store.

CLASS INCLUDES: 10% discount for all AHS purchases when you create a Shack account as part of the Arizona Hiking Shack family.

 

 

Jonathan Mincks, WFR - C.E.R.T.

Jonathan Mincks is a Wilderness First Responder and instructor of wilderness self-reliance at AHS Rescue & The Arizona Hiking Shack. He teaches modern wilderness survival, outdoor recreation, and emergency preparedness to those who work or play in the backcountry. His educational programs have garnered him praise from new enthusiasts and seasoned professionals alike.

Holding multiple certifications and distinctions in industry standards; e.g., Wilderness First Responder, Community Emergency Response Team training), Mincks is also a boondocks scholar* who has been exploring the backcountry since he was in diapers. His practical approach & experience are only rivaled by his infectious passion, broad knowledge and witty perspective on self-reliance that confounds the important nature of the subject. He turns survival into "serious fun" for those who work or play in the backcountry because, "in the end, it is a positive attitude that will prevail."

Mincks is a go-to consultant on national and regional TV, news and media concerning outdoor recreation and safety. He has worked in the outdoor industry for over 20 years on trail crews, as a guide, outfitter, medic, educator, and outreach specialist.

*Boondocks Scholar. adjective. Possessing an outlook of being on a perpetual field trip. A lifelong student of the outdoors. One who continuously studies and practices what it takes to thrive in the backcountry.