Traditional Navigation Workshop

  • Way Off-the-beaten-path
  • Desert Navigation
  • 4 Direction Clues from Nature
  • Pondering the Way
  • Boulder Mountain as seen from the Upper Sonoran Zone — just below the rim are the steep slopes of the Escarpment
  • High Points Help Identify the Way
  • A Trailless Route

Teaching Fundamental Outdoor Skills;

Developing Outdoor Competency; and 

Building Backcountry Confidence

                                                                                             

Dynamics of Traditional Navigation

                                                                                             

  • Two clues of celestial patterns provide cardinal directions.
  • Four visible life zones, each provides unique navigational clues.
  • Topography and lay of the land provide navigational information.
  • Leaning cottonwoods give directional clues based on the sun or winds.
Plant patterns, topographic patterns, weather patterns, and celestial patterns are all part of traditional navigation.

Terrain Dynamics

Plant Dynamics

Weather Dynamics

Celestial Dynamics

                                                                                             

Safety, Use and Maintenance

Skills of Foot Travel on the Landscape

                                                                                             

  • Canyon Rains, Potential Flash Flood, Which way to go?
  • Pathfinders on the Trail, Which way provides the smoothest travel?
  • Childhood Curiosity
Awareness is the key effective navigation, which leads to hiking safety and efficient travel. Childhood curiosity is essential awareness.

Safety – FIRST

Use – Hike Efficiently

Maintenance – Awareness Always

                                                                                             

Understanding the Land

                                                                                             

  • Life Zones
  • Dramatic Slickrock Overlook
  • Lay of Land
Lay of the Land, Life Zones and Water Ways are the Three Constants of Traditional Navigation

Lay of the Land

Life Zones

Water Ways

                                                                                             

Main Topics

                                                                                             

Awareness

Lay of the Land

Cardinal Directions

Home Centric Navigation

Landmarks

                                                                                             

Organizing Your

Traditional Navigation Workshop

                                                                                             

The Traditional Navigation Workshop is a one day to 4 day workshop. It is also possible to participate in a traditional navigation during a Multi-day Backcountry Adventure. As a backcountry adventure, the workshop becomes more experiential as we hike through a landscape using traditional navigation methods.

Hosting and organizing a workshop is easy.  If you are interested in a workshop for your group or organization, please visit our Hosting a Workshop page.

Since each workshop is individually designed for your organization or group, the rate for the workshop is based on various factors, which we discuss in the design process.

To start the conversation …

Here is how you can get in touch with us.

Telephone – 435.335.7710

Email – using our contact form

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Come home to nature, it welcomes you!

                                                                                             

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