New PDF release: Map and Compass: Cicerone Press (Cicerone Techniques Guide)

By Pete Hawkins

ISBN-10: 1852845988

ISBN-13: 9781852845988

This finished guidebook to navigation with a map and compass, but additionally with recommendation approximately utilizing GPS and electronic mapping platforms, goals to assist readers utilize their open air stories through studying tips to use the map compass adequately. The innovations defined will supply readers the liberty to break out from the crowds, invent their very own routes and realize new components, even the place the GPS fails. Chapters conceal realizing a map, positive aspects, grid refs, contours; making plans walks rigorously; taking bearings, strolling with a compass; timing, pacing and different ideas; what to do if you happen to wander off and in terrible visibility or darkness; navigating in a foreign country and GPS and different electronic know-how. jam-packed with helpful functional workouts and examples. Written by way of an skilled navigation trainer.

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