Course curriculum

    1. Welcome introduction

    2. Course overview

    1. Teaching bush walking skills

    2. Shelters; setting up a fly

    3. Instructor Bush Day Pack

    1. Gathering information on Pre-existing Medical Conditions, Injuries and relevant health information

    2. Checking Participants Gear and Equipment

    3. Discussing management strategies with the group if the instructor becomes incapacitated. Including emergency communication devices and disclosing hazards to the group.

    1. Group Management Strategies

    2. Hazard management strategies

    3. Instructing basic hiking skills including Movement, Pace, Rhythm & Safe movement on step terrain

    1. How to Instruct: Map reading, including scale, symbols, contour lines, features, magnetic/grid north, grid references

    2. How to Instruct: Parts of a compass, taking a bearing to a feature and using it on a map

    3. How To Instruct: Following a bearing

    4. How to Instruct: Resection

    5. How to Instruct: Orienting a map with features and with a compass

    6. How to Instruct: Locating yourself on a map/navigating to a point

    7. Navigation Time Chart

    1. Kaitiakitanga and Teachable moments

    2. Including Te Ao Maori into your trips

About this course

  • Free
  • 30 lessons

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