ESSENTIAL MAP & COMPASS SKILLS // Basic Land Navigation Part 4
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- ESSENTIAL MAP & COMPASS SKILLS // Basic Land Navigation Part 4
A map and compass are part of the 10 Essentials of hiking. Knowing how to read a topographic map ("topo map") and use it with a compass is an essential skill for all hikers. In this video you will learn the essential map and compass skills such as orienting a map, taking a bearing from the field and transferring it to a map, and taking a bearing from a mp and shooting it in the field. You will also learn advanced skills like finding your location on a straight line and triangulation.
Be sure to check out other videos in the Land Navigation Series: • Land Navigation
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Good Job Sir
Outstanding!! learnt so much in so little time. Thank you!
Awesome, glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
When you transferred a Field bearing to the map, I’m glad you made mention of putting the compass “North” to map North when lining up the meridian lines, otherwise we would be off 180 degrees. Good video!
When teaching map & compass in person, new students are often 180 off. It’s a easy, simple check. Thanks for the comment, see you outside!
Outstanding, thanks.
My pleasure! Be sure to check out the other parts of the series.
Good nav tips. Hopefully all the "Outsiders" will put these nav tips to good use at your next local Orienteering meets.......Happy Adventuring
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Best how to use a Compass and map video I have seen. Thanks mate 👍
Thanks so much! I really appreciate the comment.
Just watched this whole series. Very nicely done and easy to understand. Much thanks!
Thank you, I really appreciate the comment. Did you fall asleep at any point? I know most people start nodding off at declination.
@@OutsideChronicles No. Not boring at all. Just found your CALTopo series.
Working on an in depth Gaia GPS one to supplement. As you probably can tell I love maps and technology.
I really love these videos. Can you do one about night time land navigation?
That’s funny. Not sure if you are joking or taking about navigating by the stars. I laugh because one of the questions on the NYS Guide License test is “Does a compass work at night?”
Dontknow if you will ever see this? Im in knoxville area. Where are you? You were talking about the smokies. Im just now starting into all this, very new
Excellent tutorial! However, in the “From a Map to the Field” section starting about 7:37, you measure a bearing of 156 degrees, yet the direction of travel clearly points to a bearing greater than 180 degrees. On closer examination, it appears your camera reversed the video as the orientation arrow, previously adjusted for West declination, is now pointing to an East declination and the bezel readings are reversed, which I could see when I paused and viewed the compass on a big screen TV. Your watch and ring are also on your “right” hand. The same reversed video appeared the next time the map was displayed on the ground at about 10:07. But at about 12:58 as well as 16:49, the map image was correct.
One thing that helps me to catch similar mistakes is to relate degrees to clock hours. Dividing a 360-degree clockface by 12 hours = 30 degrees for every hour. Therefore, 30 degrees would be 1 o'clock, 60 degrees would be 2 o'clock, etc. In this case, 156 degrees would point to about 5 o'clock (5 x 30 = 150 degrees), and you would see in editing that the (reversed) video had it pointing closer to 7 o’clock (7 x 30 = 210 degrees). Before taking a map or field bearing, I try to remember to estimate about what clock hour the direction of travel points to then make sure the measured bearing agrees with that.
Nice catch on the camera reversing my hands. I never noticed that. And great tip on the clock face as a double, sanity check. Thanks for watching and thanks for the comment.
Because of the coming micronova, declination is moving much farther, and much faster and so declination information is likely incorrect but there is still a way to recalibrate magnetic declination using the shadow of sticks recording the path of the sun---rotation of the earth has not yet changed. First stick will show East. Mark it with a sharp stick pushed in. After a few minutes you can mark sun shadow travel where the shadow has moved - Push another stick in to mark West. Lay a straight stick from the E mark to the W mark. Geographic north or True North is 90 degrees from the E-W line. With your compass pointing toward True North, note how far off your compass is now. That is your true up-to-date declination. My up-to-date declination is 30 degrees, 15 degrees off from the official declination for my area. More on micronova in my 2nd book, Surviving the Micronova: This Train Is on the Tracks
So if the magnetic pull is 11 degrees west I set my declination arrow to 349 degrees ? My confusion is I would assume it is set to 11 degrees to the east to offset the pull. For some reason this really confuses me. Thanks..
It can be confusing on which to add and subtract which is why getting a compass that you can adjust the declination. However, if you are interested in the subject, I go over it in detail in this video: ruclips.net/video/YAjO8PUaOvA/видео.html Thanks for watching and the comment!
Kudos for saying red "orienting" arrow rather than "orienteering." One orients you, the other is a sport.
Nice pick up. I try to say it right, but I bet I slip up occasionally. Thanks for watching!
I am the same like you I am full adventure girl
I can't find the part 1-3. I WOULD LOVE TO USE THESE for my hiking class
Here is the full playlist: ruclips.net/p/PL0JzmvrJfyEQ7mLgesV8Ue6wU-iWwsIqJ Thanks for watching and good luck with your class. Are you teaching it or am a student?
@@OutsideChronicles I teach a hiking class at a high school. I am teaching them. Love your videos!
Jessica Redding neat, all of these videos are based on an outdoor skills class I teach. I have Google slides that I am happy to share. Send me an e-mail: mike@outsidechronicles.com if you are interested.
What is the process, when your straight-line navigation changes, due to a big obstacle or geographic incline/decline? Do you shoot 3 points, to find your location, then shoot a new Bearing/Asmuth?
Good question, if you need to walk around an obstacle, you add or subtract 90 degrees to your bearing, walk around the object (making note of distance either with time or better pace count), shoot your original bearing to clear the object, then reverse the operation by adding or subtracting to get you back to the straight line, walk the distance you traveled in the first 90 adjustments, shoot your original bearing.