Hello and welcome to this lesson of the online course Wilderness Navigation Masters, where you will discover the special orientation challenges in different conditions and how to navigate in each one of them. Let’s start with the first situation that you are likely to hike in it. Forest : A lot of people think of … Read more
Hello and welcome to this lesson of the online course Wilderness Navigation Masters, where the fun stuff starts to show, at least for me. Why? Because you will finally learn, how to choose your hike itinerary. What route choices I have? In the wilderness, most of the time, you will have to choose between: the … Read more
Hello and welcome to this lesson of the online course Wilderness Navigation Masters, where you will learn how to increase your chances of arriving at your destination successfully. Why you should learn this technique? You should learn this technique, because following a bearing, even after 10 years of experience in the wilderness, you will still … Read more
Hello and welcome to this lesson of the online course Wilderness Navigation Masters, where you will learn how to navigate with estimates. When it’s useful? Knowing how to do that is useful : When you are in a dense forest, where all of what you see are similar When you navigate by night and you … Read more
Do you know that, if you are in the wilderness and every 5 minutes you see someone turning his back to look at you, this person is not a weirdo, he is just trying to get a visual memory of his walking-back path? Yes, this is one of the techniques that you should do in … Read more
Hello and welcome to this lesson of the online course Wilderness Navigation Masters, where you will learn how to estimate how far away you are to a landmark. You will learn: Knowing that will help you : 1) To locate yourself in regards to a landmark. Because, with a back bearing plotted on your map, … Read more
Hello and welcome to this lesson of the online course Wilderness Navigation Masters, where you will learn how to locate yourself on your map. In this lesson, you will learn: In the first scenario, you will learn how to locate yourself, using two landmarks. In the second scenario, you will learn how to locate yourself … Read more
Let’s imagine this scenario. You are hiking following a trail on your map, and unexpectedly you found a trail intersection in front of you that you don’t have on your map. This can happen to you even if your map is just 2 years old. So, which one of the trails is the one that … Read more
Hello and welcome to this lesson of the online course Wilderness Navigation Masters. You will learn: How to take a bearing from your map and follow it in the field. This is a key skill that you will often use to navigate in the wilderness because it does work even when it’s dark and you … Read more
Hello and welcome to this video of the online course Wilderness Navigation Masters, where you will learn multiple things about the magnetic declination, like : How much you will deviate from your route if you forget your magnetic declination? When you can ignore your magnetic declination? How to get this year’s magnetic declination of your … Read more