LAND NAVIGATION COURSE
learn to use a map and compass in Barcelona
- Alella, Maresme – Catalonia (ES 🇪🇸)
- De Lage Vuursche, Utrecht (NL 🇳🇱)
€49,00 incl. VAT
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What will you learn during this navigation course?
This course is for people who want to learn or improve their orienteering skills with a map and compass. If you are looking for a fun and educational day out in a beautiful nature park close to Barcelona, this is the perfect choice for you! Learn from a Wilderness Guide and use your new knowledge and skills during the Navigation Challenge!
During this course, the following will be covered:
- reading a map and using a compass
- establishing bearings
- resection and triangulation
- using a protractor
- reading and plotting coordinates
- magnetic declination
- plan and walk a route based on coordinates
- survival statistics and mindset
+ bonus access to the instructional video!
This course is suitable for children aged 12 and above when accompanied by a parent (younger children only in consultation).
The course is taught in English 🇬🇧
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About your instructor
Miro is a certified Survival instructor and Wilderness Guide. He feels at home outdoors and loves to share his knowledge in a way that challenges both brain and body. In addition to Outdoor Heroes, Miro professionally teaches land navigation to new guides at the European Wilderness Education School.
About your instructor
Miro is a certified Survival instructor and Wilderness Guide. He feels at home outdoors and loves to share his knowledge in a way that challenges both brain and body. In addition to Outdoor Heroes, Miro professionally teaches land navigation to new guides at the European Wilderness Education School.
Course dates and locations
- Next course opportunities:
- Fire Making – 21/03/'26 – Montseny
- Map and Compass – 22/03/'26 – Alella
- Map and Compass – 12/04/'26 – Alella
- Map and Compass – 10/05/'26 – Alella
- Kaart en Kompas – 14/06/'26 – Hollandsche Rading (NL)
- Kaart en Kompas – 20/06/'26 – Hollandsche Rading (NL)
- Kaart en Kompas – 27/06/'26 – Alella
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More about this Land Navigation course
Devices with batteries have limitations. They run out. Or cell-coverage is suddenly lost!
Being well prepared (perhaps the most important survival skill) thus means carrying a map and compass. Whether that is your primary navigational tool or serves as a backup. But that also means you have to know how to use a map and compass. How do you find your way to your next location or back to where you came from? An indispensable skill for every (day) hiker, walker, trekker, woodsman or woman, adventurer and explorer. After all, getting lost is the most common cause of ending up in a survival situation!
This course provides the complete groundwork for confident orienteering, nowadays commonly referred to as: land navigation. Historically, however, the term navigation was strictly limited to shipping and aviation. "Learned something new again", you'll probably think. Which means we've already started! And the learning will continue before the course day begins: you will get access to an extensive instructional video (also for later reference) so that course day will be minimal theory and maximum practice. Because after all, that's how you learn the most!
We cover maps, scales, terrain features and contour lines. You will learn how to use a compass and how to use these two instruments together. You will learn how to determine your location, find the right direction and how to move safely and efficiently in unfamiliar terrain. The course is suitable for both novice and experienced hikers and provides a good foundation for further exploration and adventure if you have done little with map and compass before. We end the day with a Navigation Challenge, which involves using acquired knowledge, creativity, decision-making and a bit of perseverance.
Maps, compasses and other course materials will be provided by Outdoor Heroes. If you have your own compass, feel free to bring it along and learn how to use it even better!
Coffee included! Lunch is not, so take some with you or visit the nearby bakery or restaurant.
Practical info will follow by e-mail after registration.
Frequently asked questions – FAQ
A daypack with water, lunch (or you can buy something at the local bakery) and some snacks. Comfortable walking clothes and shoes suitable for the weather forecast. Optionally: a notebook and pen.
The course typically runs from 09:00 to 17:00, unless the group prefers a later start.
The course always goes ahead (we're outdoors people), unless safety is compromised. You can find more details in our terms and conditions.