How to read a map and use a compass - Navigate the outdoors: Stay safe in the outdoors

by Matt Hale

In this book, we will teach you everything you need to know

How to read a map
How to use a compass
Advanced Skills
How to stay safe in the outdoors.

Chapters

Introduction
About Your Map
What’s on your The Basics
What’s on your Reading Terrain
Reading Grid References
Where in the world am I? - Global Mapping Systems
Longitude and Latitude
Emergency Situations and how to deal with them
Planning your Route
Equipment
Orienting the Map
Getting from A to Keeping Track
Getting from A to Handrails
Getting from A to Attack Points
Using an Attack Point
Timing
Putting it The Basics

Using a Compass
About the Compass
Taking a bearing on the ground
How to take a Direct Bearing
Taking a Bearing from a map
Adjusting for Magnetic Declination
The Three Poles
How to find out the magnetic declination for my area
How to adjust for magnetic declination
Walking along a bearing

Pacing
Leap Frogging
Dead Reckoning
Slope Aspect
Back Bearings
Relocation - What to do if you are 'lost'
Calling for Help

79 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 2, 2016