What- Land navigation exercise
Where- Starved Rock State Park, please IM me for specific meet point
When- August 1st, 10:30 AM
Exercise specific required equipment-
1) Lensatic or orienting style compass
2) 1:25 map protractor
3) map pen(s)
4) A small ruler if your compass or protractor is not equipped with one.
Optional- A amateur band VHF/UHF radio if you have one and a license to use it.
I will supply the maps. I can email the PDF file to anyone interested, but I've found that printing from the PDF copy skews the map a bit, at least on my printer. If you end up printing the PDF yourself, I strongly suggest checking it with a protractor before using it for the exercise.
Suggested equipment-
Things you would normally bring to spend a few hours outdoors. Water, snacks, etc. Maybe a change of footwear- you might get wet. The mosquitoes were pretty bad when I scouted the location so you're probably going to want bug spray.
Duration- this can be according to each individual's discretion. I will hopefully have marked enough points that it's unlikely that anyone will have time to find them all. For reference, the APC land nav qualification is 6 points in six hours, but I don't expect we'll go anywhere near that long. This will be a relaxed exercise aimed more at developing familiarity with the process. So participants can call it quits according to their schedule/preference.
Note- while this is not being presented as an instructional event, if you are totally unfamiliar this would be a good opportunity to get started. I am a newb myself but will be available for basic pointers/advice to anyone needing them, as I won't be participating in finding the points I just placed. There will also likely be at least a couple/few other people with enough experience to give a bit of advice. So if you have zero experience, don't let that keep you at home. You'll meet some new people and leave knowing more than you did when you got there.