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Ecoventure AJ Preparation Website
  • Home
  • Preparing for your Journey
    • 1 - What is expected of you on your Journey
    • 2 - Kit list and Packing
    • 3 - What to bring and what not to bring
    • 4 - Nutrition and Expedition food
    • 5 - Registration
    • 6 - Filling in your route card
    • Blank route card
    • 7 - Your Route
  • Navigation Skills
    • 1 - Map Reading
    • 2 - Using a Compass
    • 3 - Practising your map reading and compass work
    • 6D's of navigation
Ecoventure AJ Preparation Website
  • Home
  • Preparing for your Journey
    • 1 - What is expected of you on your Journey
    • 2 - Kit list and Packing
    • 3 - What to bring and what not to bring
    • 4 - Nutrition and Expedition food
    • 5 - Registration
    • 6 - Filling in your route card
    • Blank route card
    • 7 - Your Route
  • Navigation Skills
    • 1 - Map Reading
    • 2 - Using a Compass
    • 3 - Practising your map reading and compass work
    • 6D's of navigation
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    • Home
    • Preparing for your Journey
      • 1 - What is expected of you on your Journey
      • 2 - Kit list and Packing
      • 3 - What to bring and what not to bring
      • 4 - Nutrition and Expedition food
      • 5 - Registration
      • 6 - Filling in your route card
      • Blank route card
      • 7 - Your Route
    • Navigation Skills
      • 1 - Map Reading
      • 2 - Using a Compass
      • 3 - Practising your map reading and compass work
      • 6D's of navigation

Preparing for an Adventurous Journey

GET 10% OF ALL HIKING AND CAMPING CLOTHING AND EQUIPMENT AT DECATHLON
(To redeem you must show your kit list and email confirmation of attendance)

Essential Items

The route on your phone

Nav skills

Register your team

Whats involved?

All Levels 

  • Practice Journey

  • Qualifying Journey

  • Purpose for our Journey

  • Planning and preparation for both journeys

BRONZE - 2 days + 1 night - 6hrs of purposeful effort each day

SILVER - 3 days + 2nights - 7hrs of purposeful effort each day

GOLD - 4 days + 3 nights - 8hrs of purposeful effort each day

Whats expected of you

Be prepared 

  • Know how to use a map and compass to take and follow bearings

  • Know how to pitch a tent

  • Know how to use a camping stove

  • Have your route card completed and checked

  • Have appropriate kit as outlined on the kit list

  • Know how to give basic first aid

  • Check the weather forecast and know what conditions to expect

Be self reliant, independent & safe for the entire journey

  • Carry sufficient food and water for the entire journey (water refill stations will only be avialbe at the camp site, you will need to carry a minimum of 3L per person)

  • Carry suitable first aid kit (1 per group)

  • Carry appropriate clothing for the expected conditions 

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