Wilderness Navigation : Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter, and GPS

by Burns, Bob; Burns, Mike; Hughes, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780898866292
• ISBN10: 0898866294
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books

Summary

So, ah... where do you think we are? While you may never have asked this question, there are thousands who have. Wilderness Navigation is the concise, focused and affordable answer to that question. Based on their experience helping to revise the navigation section of the best-selling climbing textbook, Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills, plus years of teaching wilderness navigation, the authors have expanded the material using the most reliable, dependable and easy-to-learn methods ever devised Wilderness Navigation will answer all your questions about reading maps; buying a compass; how to avoid getting lost, and what to do if that happens. It also covers wilderness route finding on trails, in the forest, in alpine areas and on snow and glaciers.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	6	(3)
Introduction	9	(2)
The Map	11	(18)
The Compass	29	(22)
Orientation with Map and Compass	51	(8)
Lost!	59	(10)
Off-Trail Navigation with Map and Compass	69	(8)
The Altimeter	77	(6)
The Global Positioning System (GPS)	83	(10)
Wilderness Routefinding	93	(14)
Bibliography	107	(2)
Appendix: Wilderness Navigation Practice Problems	109	(12)
Index	121