Maps are great and completely save your bacon. They can also be treacherous. In fact, the selfsame map can either provide a wealth of information or encourage all sorts of false conclusions about routes and travel times. The difference lies… Continue Reading
You’re in the process of bugging out. Drama on the main roads caused you to seek out a back route. Those little blacktops aren’t well marked though, and now it’s the middle of the night and you’re not quite sure… Continue Reading
You’ve got somewhere to be. You know where it is, but not how to get there exactly. No GPS. No clear road route. Just a compass, and if you’re lucky a map. How can you use the compass to most… Continue Reading
Suppose you’re on the east or west coast of the U.S., or somewhere else where a compass won’t point to true north. It’s dark. You’re tired. You’re trying to navigate your way to a safe location using map and compass.… Continue Reading
Your compass don’t point true north! Sounds a little like a redneck insult, doesn’t it? Well, it’s just flat truth (with bad grammar). Try compass navigation on the assumption that the little needle’s pointing straight north and you are going… Continue Reading