compass navigation

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This guide on how to use a compass and map should be enough to get you started and give you the confidence to go it alone in the hills.

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Even with a GPS in your phone, it's important to know how to use a compass just in case technology fails or visibility is poor. Here's a step-by-step beginner's guide to using a compass, so you can learn the basics of how to navigate with a map.

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When visiting the Great Outdoors, it’s often tempting to leave the trail and venture into the unknown. However, once you’ve stepped off the road, the scenery can quickly start looking the same everywhere, and before you know it you’re lost with no idea of which way you came from and which way you’re heading. It is important at that point to have the skills to find the way back home.

In the wilderness, it is sometimes useful to be able to calculate the distance to a faraway object. Using a compass and basic trigonometry (don’t worry, we’ll show you how), you can easily estimate the distance to a faraway object. This is possible using principles of geometry and triangulation – if we know any three of the sides or angles of a triangle, we can calculate the remaining angles and sides. In the examples below, we’ll demonstrate two different methods to calculate the distance…

When it comes to navigation there is nothing more reliable than a compass. In this article we selected and reviewed the best compasses for hiking.

We have been jumping around topics a bit, so I thought it might be best to put together a bit of a summary of what we have learned so far, what we still have to cover and how it is all eventually g…