Navigation tuition at Irchester Country Park

I often use Ircester country park for training many different aspects of navigation,
these include :

navigating the perminent orienteering course, accompanied walks, night navigation, etc.

Indoor sessions using Irchester Country Park as the theme

I also use Irchester for indoor theory sessions, I have taken photographs of the area and have stuck them onto card and laminated them.

I have done the same thing with both O/S and orienteering signs.

Also with descriptions of signs.

I have then taken an orienteering map of the area and cut out a small area around the photograph and mounted this to.

The idea is to match the items
photograph of the ground
small area of orienteering map
O/S symbol
orienteering symbol
description of O/S symbol
description of orienteering symbol

With orienteering maps costing Ł1, a set of prints aprox. Ł5, symbol cards Ł5 (or draw your own)
card Ł2 for a couple of sheets if you do not already have some.

The completed exercise costs around Ł7 to Ł14, depending what you already have and how much you want to draw yourself or purchase pre-pared.

Orienteering map of Irchester CP

examples of photos, symbol cards, and symbol descriptions

example of a suitable photograph
(a path through undergrowth)

and an example
of the symbol
card used
for this path

another idea on the same theme is to plan a short walk, then produce a route card for it.

go out and take photographs of the checkpoints on your route card, and the start and finish points.

use either a full size map of the area or small areas around each check point that have been cut out and stuck to card

give each student the map(s) photographs, and route card and the match them.

a path junction on the Nene way
is a good example of where a photograph can be used to indicate
a point on a route card

an example of a in the Long Myndd
online soon