Navigation Skills - Attack Points

[@fellrunningguide]

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[@doughobbs7706]

Reallly good video this one- very interesting points raised 👍👍👍

[@fellrunningguide]

Cheers Doug

[@trytheoutdoors]

Brilliant. Thank you.

[@fellrunningguide]

Thanks Imran

[@johnrobertson7583]

This is interesting. At first i thought you were an orienteer. After looking up fell running, im curious as to why you have a specific leg in this type of event versus just running a complete distance like 10 or 20k…or whatever the usual distances are…seems like if youre just trying to get up the hil…then just keep going up the spur…

[@fellrunningguide]

Thanks for commenting John. I teach navigation skills so these videos are designed more as instructional tasks rather than specifically related to fell races. This example is just to explain what is meant by the term attack point and how it is a useful technique to use. There are some fell races that are more like orienteering events that require quite a good level of navigation skill. There are also events called "mountain marathons" that are in fact orienteering events but over a much larger area than usual.

[@alanwetherelt7155]

I was thinking wall , but not sure of you start point , also good chance people or animals way have made a bit of a path near the wall

[@clivedunning4317]

Late to the party but my observation is that your solution might not be the best. If you use the end of the wall as your attack point you might become a cropper , especially at night, if the wall has been shortened since the map was printed. Or, it might have a big gap that leads you to think, in the dark, that you have reached the "end" (false) of the wall ! Interesting subject !

[@fellrunningguide]

What would you do instead?

[@clivedunning4317]

@@fellrunningguide If I was in a unfamiliar area I would be doubly cautious of accepting man made features or those susceptible to change, like a forestry block, that might have been there when the map was made, but now might have been added to by tree planting, or totally removed if all the trees had been felled. My natual instinct would be to use the wall intersection. I know it is a bit further away but it should be more easily identifiable on the ground, in the dark. Plus, even if the wall had fallen over the geometrical shape would be there to identify it. Don't you just love watches that give you a grid reference !

[@rrcaniglia]

“On the flat…”?? Crossing the 430 contour line does not put one on a plateau. From 420 to 450, the slope is the same. At 430, you’re no flatter than at 420. Go to the end of the fence, walk your azimuth. If you reach 25 m past your estimated distance, begin a rectilinear search pattern.

[@fellrunningguide]

Sorry, I don't know which point in the video you are referring to?