GPS Integrated Wilderness Navigation Courses

The best in GPS Training
and Wilderness Navigation Instruction

Instruction in wilderness navigation and safety oriented wilderness travel

Wilderness navigation and GPS instruction

"Realizing the connection between a GPS and a map"
— Wilderness Navigation Core Seminar Participant

A range of well designed and seemlessly integrated Wilderness Navigation courses are available today from the Boreal Wilderness Institute. Our Wilderness Navigation courses integrate the use of GPS receivers with topographical maps, compass, and airphotos; the “Navigators Toolbelt”. Our courses provide a solid foundation based on proper instruction. Each of the courses in this series are firm steps in becoming a excellent wilderness navigator, learning to travel safely in the wilderness and earning BWI's Navigation Certificate.

Our wilderness navigation courses integrate GPS training fully with the use of NTS Topographical Maps, sighting compasses, and orienteering compasses. A GPS Receiver is an excellent tool that will aid a navigator while traveling through the wilderness. It is best to think of a GPS as another tool that should be added to the “toolbelt” of the wilderness navigator. A GPS Receiver is definitely a fine addition, although not a replacement for a Topographical Map, an Airphoto, a Quality Compass, Pace Beads, an Altimeter, and skill in Wilderness Navigation. Learn to use all these tools by registering for a course today.

"Interesting and Fun"
— Wilderness Navigation Core Seminar Participant