24/02/2026
Navigation is not an optional extra in the outdoors.
It is one of the core pillars of real competence.
Being able to read the landscape, understand where you are, choose safe and efficient routes, and move confidently in poor visibility changes everything. It alters how you feel in wild places. It shifts you from following to leading. It removes a layer of uncertainty that too many people quietly carry.
Our Wilderness Wayfinder Navigation Course runs at most once per year.
For 2026, we now have just four places remaining.
This 6-day field course goes way beyond a basic map-and-compass weekend. It is an immersion in practical navigation as it is actually used: in complex terrain, under time pressure, in deteriorating conditions, and on journeys where decisions have consequences.
The instructional team is:
• Paul Kirtley
• James Bath
• Henry Landon
All three are UK Mountain Leader qualified, meaning their navigation has been formally tested to a high standard.
More importantly, between them they bring decades of expedition and wilderness travel experience from the UK and far beyond, applying navigation in forests, mountains, bushlands, waterways and other remote regions where getting it wrong has real consequences.
If navigation is still a weak point for you, or if you want to raise your level to something genuinely solid and field-proven, this is your opportunity.
With only four places left, once they are gone, that will be it until the next time we run it.
Details and booking information are linked below.
https://frontierbushcraft.com/courses/wilderness-wayfinder-navigation-course/
