land navigation

[EPS]

OK I have managed to use my compass to navigate from my recliner in the front room to my bed in the bedroom start small BABY STEP 'S LOL I'M OUT

 

[Stomper]

OK I have managed to use my compass to navigate from my recliner in the front room to my bed in the bedroom start small BABY STEP 'S LOL I'M OUT

You can use a beer can to navigate that far....

 

[EPS]

You can use a beer can to navigate that far....

Well I kinda did I just followed the trail of empty beer cans from last night and they lead right to my bed mmmmm alcoholic hanzil and geretle or something like that

 

[Stomper]

Well I kinda did I just followed the trail of empty beer cans from last night and they lead right to my bed mmmmm alcoholic hanzil and geretle or something like that

So how many beer cans do you pace in 100m?

 

[Sgt Nambu]

A trick for holding a straight line of march through heavy brush is to cut a 12-15' sapling, get your azimuth and take off dragging the pole behind you. The length of pole won't allow you to turn in the thicket!
I have a US Army Land Navagation app on my iPad and iPhone, it's really a complete course.
When my kid and grand kids were growing up I would lay out orienteering courses, leaving a couple of bucks in change hidden at each goal. Always more challenging terrain, end of the course each kid had a heavy sack of quarters and a new skill!

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Nothing more dangerous than a 2nd Lieutenant with a map and compass.
We had a LT. we called: Lima , Lima , Alpha, Mike, FoxTrot...
'Cause he was always Lost Like A Mother F*cker...

Once you learn land navigation skills ... take the time to practice them often.
Skills can erode if not not used...
I wish you were closer snarlingdog... I'd take you out and show you how to read and use a map ,compass and such....
Andy

 

[Stomper]

Frakin' butter bars.... ours got us lost for nearly two weeks in an undisclosed Central American jungle.... but in his defense, GPS wasn't a "thing" back then and there wasn't much for terrain features to refer too.

We had to "go native", make like billy-goats, and forage for food & water..... BLEAAAAACK!

 

[Kristina]

Oh no I get that haha. I got a 140 acre demonstration Forest that I hike almost daily so I can get a map of that area and just maybe plot a course of some kind.

That is actually a really good idea. You already know the area by sight, see if you can look at the map and recognize terrain features and whatnot as they are represented on the map. If you can do that, then just think of looking at a map of somewhere you haven't been as the reverse.

 

[Kristina]

Check this out too: Permanent Courses

These are permanent orienteering courses that you can print maps for and practice your way-finding.