Monthly Archives: January 2012

Cloosterman’s ZigZag 3 for Autodownload

I wanted to use SI units and Autodownload with the Cloostermans ZigZag 3 exercises.  Our SI Boxes were numbered 201 upwards.

So, I’ve created a new Master Map, with the SI numbers instead of those on the original.  You can download this here. Read more

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NavNight 25/1/2012

Main block tonight was the Go4O Section 3 exercises.  We used Autodownload and dibbers, with live results, to make it a little more interesting.

The second block went back to the high knee drills and symbol matching relays.

Good evening, with a couple of newcomers. Read more

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Grid References and Post Codes

There is a useful website that helps convert Grid References to Postcodes.  See www.gridreferencefinder.com to go from Post Code to Grid Reference, and to a certain extent Grid Reference to Post Code.  Also useful for Latitude and Longitude.

There are facilities that give you Grid Reference direct from Streetmap.co.uk.  Read more

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NavNight 18/1/2012

Revisited the Harvey Map Cones exercise.  People got better at doing this and were able to recognise the different features better.  Adam suggested that we should do that with O symbols and IOF Descriptions for UVHS.

Introduced the High Knee running drill and then did a relay doing some exercises and map jigsaws. Read more

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Tarn Hows Trail O details

As I’ve been walking around Tarn Hows the Trail O course has been quite obvious. I finally came across the details today on the National Trust website.

Click here to find the pdfs of the two courses and the answers. Read more

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NavNight 11/1/2012

This week we started by revisiting the table top mapping.  I asked them to do a similar task to last week, but to use symbols and keys more.  Then I asked them to introduce height into their table top constructions.  The height gave me a chance to talk about the difficulty of mapping height and interpreting contour details. Read more

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UVHS Training 11/1/2012

First day of our new regime of 4 exercises and 3 groups where each group does 2 exercises per week.  So gets through all 4 in two weeks.

I’m using the Luc Cloostermans Go4O exercises for my bit.

I set up a version of Exercise 2 with SI Units at the cones and provided live results via Autodownload.  Read more

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NavNight 4/1/2012

A New Year and NavNight starts again.

This week we did some table top mapping.  In teams, they were asked to make a pattern with any found objects, map them, clear them off and find another team to put them back.  Read more

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