ORIENTATION FOR BEGINNERS
Learn to read the topographic map and to use a compass for its use in mountaineering sports.
- Mountaineering cartography and orientation.
- Coordinate systems: geographic and UTM.
- The projections. The scale. The representation of the relief.
- Reading of maps. Planimetry, altimetry and toponymy.
- The compass.
- Cartographic sources of mountaineering.
- Ratio: 1 teacher, 8 students.
- Duration: 2 days.
- Requirements: You mustn’t have any kind of medical condition that could hinder your progress during the activity.
- Place: Andalusian Natural Parks.
- Material: Boots, backpack, water bottle and appropriate clothes, paper, pencil and protractor, SILVA compass and altimeter (if available).
- Price: € 100.
- Dates: exact date to be determined, sometime in the month of October.
Learn other summer mountain progression techniques:
- Introduction to sport climbing (level I)
- Advanced sport climbing (level II)
- Traditional climbing
- Aid climbing
- Canyoning for beginners
- Advanced Canyoning
- Mountaineering for beginners
- Via ferrata progression
- Orientation for beginners
- Advanced orientation
- On-wall self-rescue (rock climbing)
- Self-rescue in a gorge or ravine