I have been brushing up on my map and compass backcountry navigation skills lately. This skill, I believe is in the top three skills in any woodscrafter, hunter, hiker, fisherman, bushcrafter, etc., should know.
Here are some good sites:
Backcountry Navigation
USGS Site
Great full fledged lesson on land nav
Orienteering is fun. Here's how to do it.
Youtube video making life with a compass easier to understand!
Navigation with a compass and a map is easy. It is a few simple bits and pieces of information and skills, thats all. The more you do it, the more you think about it, the easier and more intuitive it is.
So get out there!
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Don't wait until you retire to go hunting and fishing. Don't even wait for your annual vacation. Go at every opportunity. Things that appear urgent at the moment may, in the long run, turn out to be far less so. -Ted Trueblood
Some of my favorite places indoors
- Elk 101
- Idaho Traditional Bowhunters
- Kuiu Blog
- Hunter Gather Cook
- Northwest Woodsman
- Bushcraft Northwest
- Hunter, Angler, Gardener, Cook
- One Acre Homestead
- 4 Wheelers Sailing the Caribbean
- Inside the Wild Within
- The Thinking Hunter
- Dynamite Skills
- Skills for wild lives
- Jon's Bushcraft Projects
- Larry Yien's bowhunting blog
- The Maine Outdoorsman
- Dave Peterson's books
- Aki and Scott, living in the backcountry
- British Blades Forum
- Bushcraft UK
- Bow Building for Poor Folks
- Back Country Hunters and Anglers
- Paddling Light, the new version of the old website "Nessmucking"
- Zen Stoves
- American Bushman
- TRADGANG
Required Reading
- Bushcraft, Mors Kochanski
- Backcountry Bowhunting, Cameron Hanes
- The Spell of the Yukon and other verses, Robert W. Service
- Hiking Hot Springs of the Northwest, Evie Litton
- Exploring Idaho's Mountains, Tom Lopez
- The American Boys Handy Book, Daniel Carter Beard
- The Complete Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook, Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht
- The Collected Jack London, Jack London
- Fred Bear's Field Notes, Fred Bear
- The Traditional Bowhunter's Handbook, TJ Conrads
- The Ridgerunner, Richard Ripley
- One Man's Wilderness, Sam Keith,Richard Proenneke
- On the Wild Edge, David Peterson
All you never wanted to know about me
- backcountrybowhunter
- Boise, ID, United States
- 34 year old once a Marine, always a Marine. I am a nurse, and, as you might have guessed, I enjoy the outdoors. I am a part time bowyer, knife builder, full time tinkerer, part time beer brewer... with a past history of adventure, a future of X (unknown quantities), a lovely, understanding (mostly) wife, a young son, (and another bun in the oven) and no dog.
2 comments:
Excellent links . . . I have been studying for my guides test so this was a helpful review!
Good luck with the testing! That is an elite group.
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