Sienna Fry – Basic Map and Compass Skills
$20.00$45.00 (-56%)
We’ve designed this course to be taken at your own pace. You’ll learn through a variety of interactive formats, including video instruction, photos, and more.
Sienna Fry – Basic Map and Compass Skills
Check it out: Sienna Fry – Basic Map and Compass Skills
Learn (and perfect) how to navigate with a map and compass with BACKPACKER and the Colorado Outward Bound School. In this two-week online course, we’ll explain the basics of analog navigation, so you can explore with confidence and ensure you’re never lost—even when your smartphone fails.
In this concise but thorough course, we’ll focus on everything you need to know when navigating with a map and compass. That means lessons like how to read topographical maps, matching your map to the landscape, measuring distance, taking and following a bearing, triangulating your location, and more.
How this Course Works
We’ve designed this course to be taken at your own pace. You’ll learn through a variety of interactive formats, including video instruction, photos, and more. Each session builds on the last, and, while we’ve designed the course in two parts, you can take it as quickly or slowly as you want. Plus, once you purchase the course, the lessons are yours forever.
Intro: Why People Get Lost
Reading Maps
- Types of Maps
- Map Features
- Distance
- Contour lines
- Matching map to landscape
- Orienting a map
- Latitude/longitude and UTM
Using a Compass
- Parts of a compass
- Declination
- Taking a bearing on a map
- Taking a bearing on a landmark
- Triangulation
