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Wilderness Navigation Course
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All the confusion regarding the use of compass, maps, GPS, etc. is clarified and made extremely simple to understand. Once you view this training video you can go directly into the wilderness with complete confidence of finding your way out again no matter how rough the terrain is and no matter how poor the visibility might be.
This video covers the following subjects in detail:
MAP AND COMPASS NAVIGATION
Shadow stick navigation
This video covers the following subjects in detail:
MAP AND COMPASS NAVIGATION
- Basic and Advanced Orienteering
- Base points and intersecting base points
- Bearing and reverse bearings
- Bearings, direction, distances and designations
- Creation of smart maps
- Smart map navigational procedures
- Declination and variation
- Determining individual pace
- Features of a good compass and how to use it to establish bearings
- Maps (topographic) and how to read and use them
- Procedures when lost in the wilderness
- State index maps
- Topographic map symbols
- Triangulation
- Effect of right and left foot dominance
- Most common reasons for getting lost
- Sources for maps and compasses
- Different types of topographic maps and the best one to use
- Desired compass features
- Effect of vertical distances on route planning
- Time to cover various types of terrain
- Procedure for orienting the map to the landscape
- Conditions in which there may be no landmarks and how to navigate
- System for working your way around obstacles in your path of travel
- Map tracking
- Terrain features
- Offset navigation
- Bearing and back bearings
- Primitive navigational methods should your equipment be destroyed or lost
- Setting up your GPS - we take out all the confusion by giving you the precise datum that ties to topo maps, proper units of measurement, etc. - you can be up and running in minutes with your GPS
- Establishing and storing way points
- Tracking inbound on established way points
- UTM grid system
- How to load a UTM grid location into your GPS
- How to use the UTM Plotter for map interface
- GPS and topographic map interface
- Finding your exact location of a map when lost
- USGS topographic maps on CD-ROM
- 2D and 3D views and prints
- Instant measurements of distance, areas, and elevation profiles
- Establishing instant waypoints and routes that can be downloaded directly to your GPS
- Printing your own topographic maps right off your computer
- Creating trail profiles with a click of your mouse
- Advanced drawing and mapping tools
- Setting up Geopins
- Wilderness trip planning
Shadow stick navigation