Residential module or day twilight module
Module 1: Survival Skills
An important part of this module is learning survival skills. This section may involve spending a night in the woods, sleeping in shelters made by the Youth Rangers...
The Youth Rangers will be trained in packing a rucksack efficiently, navigation, using tools, building shelters and fires, cooking dinner and breakfast and surviving their leader's poor jokes.
They will also be taught and assessed in decamping safely and campcraft which will not harm their natural surroundings.
Module 2: Navigation
Reading maps and practice in Navigation Skills can mean the difference between life and death in some extreme circumstances (hopefully not during the Youth Ranger course).
Navigation skills take up a large section of the Youth Ranger Programme and the group can even gain the National Navigation Award Scheme at Bronze, Silver and Gold levels, if they complete the course.
They will be taught about grid references, map symbols, estimating distances, magnetic variation of maps, using compass bearings, understanding limiting factors such as height gain or loss by studying contours.
These skills will eventually lead to them planning and walking a safe route in line with criteria in duration, difficulty and specific navigation objectives.
