Compass Navigation Tutorial

this video will cover the basics of map and Compass navigation usually we just do our right up on the blog but navigation can get a bit complicated so I made a quick video if you're watching this on the blog you can find the right up below if you're watching this on YouTube you can just click through to

the blog on the popup navigation is mostly basic awareness just by consciously paying attention to where you are and where you have been you can get by on most hikes on longer hikes though or inove visibility knowing how to find your way with a map en campus is crucial GPS devices and phones with GPS

devices shouldn't be a main form of navigation when power runs out or when they fail you might find yourself in trouble this video has broken up into three sections you can jump ahead to each section by clicking on these annotations section one will cover the tools I will speak about maps and Compasses and how the two work together

section two will cover how to find your current position you need to know where you are before you can navigate to your destination section three will cover a couple of ways on how to navigate to your destination section one the tools there are three types of compasses this sunto mc2 is an example of a mirror

Compass to take a bearing from a landmark the mirror is angled up and you look through the site below the mirror this silver is an example of a base plade campus and here's an example of a button campus this one has a small base plade but often these are found on watches on the back of knives or

whistles and so on you can see how simple the button Compass is by comparison aside from showing we North is it doesn't tell you much and it doesn't help much for navigation it might help having a compass at hand for reference while watching this video a good Compass needs the following features you'll see that they're