PAST Outdoors x Wayfinder Field Skills
Hiking Fundamental Land Navigation Course

Custom Dates available - contact us if you are part of a group that requires a private or custom course

Learn the art of navigation with a map and compass! After selling out our recent courses Wayfinder and PAST Outdoors are teaming up again to deliver more courses in 2026.

With two convenient locations just out of Sydney; Helensburgh on the South Coast and Morriset on the Central Coast, you can learn the essentials skills and knowledge needed to navigate using a map and compass.

This course is conducted by Wayfinder Fieldskills with the theory and classroom lessons and the practical out in the local bushland.

Your instructors will impart knowledge gained through years of extensive military and Special Operations experience.

Wayfinder Field Skills Land Navigation Course includes:

Map reading
Read and plot grid references
How to use a compass
Navigating cross country using only a map and compass

No prior experience or equipment is needed, this course is designed for:

Hikers
Orienteering and rogaining participants
Hunters
Trail Runners
Back Country Hiking

Wayfinder Field Skills Land Navigation Course Locations

The course is conducted at either PAST Outdoors in our education space and in the local bushland surrounding the Royal Nation Park. The Central Coast course is conducted in Morriset (location disclosed on booking for privacy reasons). All attendees are offered a 15% discount for any in-store purchase on the day of the course at PAST Outdoors. Normal sale Terms and Conditions apply.

Wayfinder Field Skills Land Navigation Course Time table

0800 Arrive, Coffee and introductions
0815 Theory Lessons 1 & 2 on Land Navigation
1015 Morning Tea
1030 Theory Lessons 3 & 4 on Land Navigation
1230 Lunch
1300 Practical Navigation Exercise
1700 Debrief and Certificates issued

The course can not be refunded if canceled within 7 days of the date of training

About your instructor

Clancy, the founder of Way-finder field skills, grew up doing multi day hikes with his mother in the Tasmanian wilderness. As a teenager and young adult, if he wasn’t somewhere in the mountains of Tasmania then he could be found climbing at a rock face, fishing a wild river or riding a mountain bike trail.

This love of adventure led Clancy to join the military in 2003 where he served for 13 years in both regular infantry and special operations. During his time in the Army he successfully completed 3 sniper qualifications- basic sniper course, advanced sniper team leader course and special forces sniper course. All 3 of these courses tested his skill and ability in the field environment to their utmost and created an exponential growth in knowledge and comfort in the bush.

Those skills are underpinned by one thing - pinpoint accuracy in the art of navigation.

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