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This course is being offered in partnership
with Yamnuska Mountain Adventures.
In todays high tech world planning safe and
efficient back country routes using a variety
of digital topographic maps and electronic
devices can be mind boggling. Whether you are
a seasoned mountaineering or first timer
looking to explore the back country, this 1 day
Digital Navigation course will walk you through
a variety of online resources and teach you the
fundamental tools for both trip planning and
use while out in the back country.
Whether you have cell service or not, we’ll
show you how to use your smartphone to plan,
navigate and track your routes, while
conserving battery life. The course will have a
classroom element in the morning followed by a
practical session in the field in the
afternoon.
Goals and Objectives:
- Basic functions of GPS (smartphones) and how
they work
- Limitations of the technology
- App settings
- Map Layers
- Route Planning using Gaia & Google Earth
- Setting waypoints and creating a track on the
smartphone.
- How to find your location
- Follow a route
- Tracking a route
- What to do when the GPS doesn’t work
12:00 pm head to the field
- Use of the GPS in the field
- Locating your position
- Reading the map information on the smartphone
and confirming your position
- Navigation course
- Following a track
- Tracking a route
Cost for the course is $99.75 + 4.99 GST =
$104.74.
The ACC Calgary Section has
received a discount for this course.
To sign up for this event:
1 - Register through the normal process
2 - Send an-etransfer payment to the Treasurer
at treasurer@accccalgary.ca
3 - When you send your payment, include the
following information: name, full address,
including postal code, phone number, email,
course title and date, Trip Leader/Coordinator,
and the password to accept the payment.
4 - Email the e-transfer evidence to the trip
coordinator, Rick Bennett
rickbennett28@gmail.com
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