Wouldn't that be best *after* learning the basics so you had a solid foundation and understanding to build on?
Honestly I don't think so.
1. I don't think off-roader nees basic traing. I mean if you got somebody who has never seen map, gps and has no understanding of coordinate system then yes we've got a problem. Barring aforementioned, 1/2 - 1 hour explanation would be enough (here are the coordinates, that's how you translate them to position on the map, here is map legend, find best route connecting two points). We are not talking navigating with just tripmeter, compass, or sundial and watch or...etc
2. Hopefully out of team of 4 people (people are not venturing out into nowhere along) somebody has descent grasp of navigating.
3. We are not talking crossing Sahara desert or Siberia nor even road-less open BLM lands. In Nevada Trophy one navigates on existing roads and trails that are present on the map or even on average TomTom or Garmin Nuvi.
Good hands-on experience is what you need for building navigation skills. Nevada Trophy is perfect settings for that. If one got common sense that's about enough. I'm sure there dumb people out where capable of getting into all kinds of trouble but somehow I suspect they mostly don't hang out on this site.
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Dammit.
