The Silver National Navigation Award develops the navigation skills acquired at the Bronze level. It adds skills required to navigate to features and places some distance from paths and tracks. It teaches accurate compass work. It will also teach you to select the suitable navigational techniques to cross open country - typical Cumbria navigation.

On the course, you will: relate small hills etc to map contours; use landforms and locations to orientate the map and as collecting and catching features; follow a bearing; aim off; check the direction of handrails and other linear features; know how to avoid obstacles or difficult terrain and regain the original line; use back bearings; measure distance on the ground; simplify legs using coarse navigation and attack points; recognise dangerous or difficult terrain; maintain route finding accuracy in poor visibility or darkness; recognise a navigation error and use relocation techniques.