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An easy-to-understand primer on time-tested navigation techniques that work when your GPS fails
When disaster strikes and your GPS is useless, ancient navigation techniques will ensure your survival. With this book, you can easily travel through even the farthest, remotest places. Utilizing tips from US Army manuals and lifelong wilderness experts, you'll learn lifesaving navigation techniques, including how to: - Orient yourself using a topographical map
- Find north using a compass, shadows and stars
- Calculate distance using landmarks and pace count
- Navigate unfamiliar terrain using dead reckoning
- Travel in low visibility with a navigator and point person
- Use landscape features to pinpoint location This definitive guide to terrain navigation also teaches you essential survival skills like fire craft, water procurement and shelter making.
About the author
Walter Glen Martin is the owner and producer of Prepper Broadcasting, a 24/7 prepper/survival internet radio station. Raised in Oregon, he spent most of his youth hunting, fishing, and camping in the Strawberry Mountains and, later, the Three Sisters Wilderness area. Working with a degree in architectural and mechanical drafting, Walt still longed for adventure, and weekends, holidays, and vacations would always find him somewhere in the wilderness. When he's not at his desk, Walt is either tending his animals or somewhere in the mountains of Northern Idaho.
Summary
An easy-to-understand primer on time-tested navigation techniques that work when your GPS fails
When disaster strikes and your GPS is useless, ancient navigation techniques will ensure your survival. With this book, you can easily travel through even the farthest, remotest places. Utilizing tips from US Army manuals and lifelong wilderness experts, you’ll learn lifesaving navigation techniques, including how to:
• Orient yourself using a topographical map
• Find north using a compass, shadows and stars
• Calculate distance using landmarks and pace count
• Navigate unfamiliar terrain using dead reckoning
• Travel in low visibility with a navigator and point person
• Use landscape features to pinpoint location
This definitive guide to terrain navigation also teaches you essential survival skills like fire craft, water procurement and shelter making.
