As the new watch captain emerges on deck, his counterpart begins his hand-off with a report on the competition, “We’ve dropped them back 5 degrees in the last hour, plus the range has doubled, so ...
This material is taken from Chapter 6 - Wilderness Travel from The Backpackers Field Manual by Rick Curtis. For more details on this exciting book check out The Backpacker's Field Manual Page. This ...
How to use a compass to take and follow a bearing A bearing is the direction from you to your objective (or any given point) and is expressed using degrees. These are the familiar degrees in a circle, ...