Intermediate and Night Navigation Courses – Dartmoor

By: Blonde Two

Intermediate Navigation Course on Dartmoor Want to top up your navigation skills? Want to remind yourself of how to use a compass? Planning a walk off… Read full article

5 Things You Definitely Need For Night Navigation

By: Blonde Two

Only a fool would venture onto Dartmoor at any time without all of the usual warm gear, safety kit, and common sense, but there are… Read full article

Night Navigation Courses

By: Blonde Two

Over the last few weeks, Blonde One and I have been having a lot of fun setting up some night navigation courses. This, I can… Read full article

The Shortest Night Navigation Ever

By: Blonde Two

I don’t make claim to breaking many records, I can’t run fast, jump high or speed knit, but as a child, I always fancied seeing… Read full article

Can my phone step counter help me with navigation?

By: Blonde Two

The question above about using phone step counters to judge distance was one posed, very sensibly, by one of our navigation trainees (it was very… Read full article

International Women’s Day – Arc’Teryx Navigation Workshops

By: Blonde Two

Today is going to start as usual, with an (at present very chilly and quick) dip in the sea but after that (well not immediately)… Read full article

Night walking

By: Blonde One

I had the pleasure last week of introducing some Gold DofE students from Trinity School to night navigation. We went just across the River Teign from school… Read full article

A Wild Night Out – Dartmoor Weather

By: Blonde Two

We all knew what was coming on Wednesday night. The wind had been gusting around my house all day and it seemed unlikely that up… Read full article

Intermediate navigation courses Dartmoor

By: Blonde One

Our most recent navigation course on Dartmoor was for the consolidation of previously learned navigation skills and was attended by 10 eager and enthusiastic people. We… Read full article

Teaching Navigation Courses – The Qualifications

By: Blonde Two

As you know, one of the things that we Blondes spend our summers doing is running Navigation Workshops on Dartmoor. We love our Dartmoor navigation… Read full article

Urban night nav

By: Blonde One

On our recent bunkhouse trip we had considered having a night walk so that we could practise our navigation and so that we would feel… Read full article