Map and Compass classes

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If anyone is interested, we're putting together a new map and compass course schedule due to several people requesting we teach another class.

These are one-day classes run in conjunction with a National Park Ranger in Ft. Payne, AL. 3 hours of classroom instruction and then we go to the field and run the course inside the national park wilderness areas. Usually we run on into the night to make it interesting. Cost is minimal since we try to collect enough to pay for the classroom usage and topo maps. If you're wondering where this is, then look up Ft. Payne Alabama on your map and then find Desoto State park and you'll be pretty close.

The course covers the following:

Compass Basics
Dead Reckoning, Offset & Terrain Association Navigation
Understanding And Adjusting For Declination
Traveling to a Target
Topo Map Basics
Pace Counting
Finding Yourself on a Map
UTM Coordinate System

Our past classes have had participants from all over the Southeast and all walks of life, including college students, cops, SWAT teams and EMS workers.

Email me if you're interested. jeff@ratcutlery.com
 
y'all need to come do one in the west someplace. utah, perhaps. :D I'd be totally down, but it's a wee bit far for me to travel right now.
 
Do you have a particular month in mind?
Also, what level of experience is recommended to participate?
 
The map and compass powerpoint looks really great! I think the hands on course would be fantastic.
 
I am pretty confident in my map and compass skills but I always like to learn new ways..... I would be down depending on the weekend. I am on active duty right now at Kt Knox so I would need some time to get my leave approved.
 
Jeff,

I'm waiting on my park ranger friend to let me know what Saturday we can use the classroom at the park and what day he will be off work so he can help with one of the groups in the field. As soon as I know that we will have the next date posted up on the class. We usually have 6 to 10 people in each class so after the couple of hours of classroom we divide the students into two groups to do the field work. The area we work in is a national wilderness area so it's very remote except for the fire roads.

Anyway, I'll let you know. Ft Knox is not too bad of a ride. probably 5 or 6 hours at the most. We use to go up there all the time for the Knob Creek shoot, and even did the Armor Expo on post a while back.
 
I spoke with Jimmy Dunn, the park ranger that heads all of this up, and we settled on May 17th for the next class (rain, shine, sleet snow, tornado....doesn't matter the class runs).
 
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