Knowing how to navigate without your mobile phone should be a priority for all weekend explorers, regardless of the route! Andrew Dawson from Unleashed-Unlimited, who’ll be running our upcoming Wilderness Navigation Escape outside of Melbourne, lets us in on how to navigate without your ‘dog and bone.’
Read the full article at We Are Explorers.
You can currently see where you want to go but you are about to lose sight of your destination? Here's how to use a compass to find your way.
The first stage of navigating with a map and compass involves working out your grid bearing. Here’s how it’s done.
Have you ever found yourself in the situation where you know roughly where you are on the map, but just can’t pinpoint your location? Here’s how to work out your position by triangulation, or resection, using a map and compass.
You can see where you are on the map and you know where you want to go. But you still don't know which direction to actually start walking! Here's how to use a compass to find your way.
Your mobile phone may be awesome if you want to avoid the current traffic, take the fastest route by car, or to check in with your mates at the local café. It can be near on useless, however, if you’re planning a route through remote wilderness over rugged terrain by foot.
Whether you take a magnetic bearing in the field and want to use that bearing to determine your position on your map, or you take a grid bearing on your map and want to use that bearing to find your direction in the field, you will need to make an adjustment to allow for the grid magnetic angle. This is how to do it.