Improvers' Navigation - HER Outdoors Week - 17th August - Cork

Mountaineering Ireland

The Women With Altitude team is coming to a county near you! This week is all about building your confidence on the hills and crags.

Gougane Barra

HER Outdoors Week - A Week for Women With Altitude

HER Outdoors Week returns once again from 12th – 18th August, and what a week it will be! The week is all about providing more opportunities for ALL females to escape to the outdoors and try something new.Mountaineering Ireland is delighted to collaborate with Cork Sports Partnership in delivering this event. This Improvers' Navigation activity will be based in Cork, meeting in Gougane Barra.This event will start at 9am and will finish by approximately 3pm.This activity is ideal for women who have some navigation experience but who want to improve and gain further confidence as navigators. Participants should have already completed some navigation training, ideally Mountain Skills 1 or some informal equivalent training and have spent some time practicing the skills learned. Participants should be comfortable with different map scales and identifying bigger features. The course is intended to build on previous learning and move forwards to more complex problem solving.What gear do I need?<ul><li>Hiking boots / walking shoes with woolly or synthetic socks (not cotton)</li><li>Comfortable clothing, e.g. leggings / tracksuit bottoms, breathable T-Shirt and fleece &amp; an extra warm layer (try to avoid cotton).</li><li>Small backpack</li><li>Waterproof jacket and pants</li><li>Hat and gloves</li><li>An extra warm layer or two in your backpack</li><li>Water (minimum 1.5 litres), lunch and snacks</li><li>Sunscreen, personal medicine, inhaler, Epipen, etc.</li><li>OSI, Harvey or EastWest map of the area and a compass if you have one – maps and compasses may be supplied by the instructor.</li><li>Mobile phone (fully charged)</li></ul>Refund policy: refunds will be issued if requested at least 7 days prior to the event. For refund requests within 7 days of the event, refunds will be issued if the space is taken by someone on the waitlist.Disclaimer: Mountaineering Ireland recognises that climbing, hillwalking and mountaineering are activities with a danger of personal injury or death. Participants in these activities should be aware of and accept these risks and be responsible for their own actions and involvement.

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