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Anonymous Fri 10 Nov 2023 03:24:49 No.2665468 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2665469 >>2665573 >>2666585 >>2666593 >>2666622 >>2668198 >>2669681 >>2670088 >>2673004

Should I take a map and compass class or can I just learn this on youtube?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Nov 2023 03:27:55 No.2665469 Report

Quoted By: >>2665492

>>2665468
Youtube has everything you need to know (as long as you avoid videos on how to pass the Army land nav course), but going to a class could be fun if you don't mind spending the money

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Nov 2023 04:29:53 No.2665492 Report

Quoted By: >>2668219

>>2665469
This. Great answer. You can learn literally anything on YouTube, as long as you have the aptitude to learn that is, but a class could still be fun, and in person instruction with hands on practice can be a great time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Nov 2023 10:17:17 No.2665573 Report

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>>2665468
if you absolutely feel the need to be taught in person theres probably orienteering clubs around doing beginner events innapark and shit. it's more of a thing than you might think.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Nov 2023 03:44:30 No.2666585 Report

Quoted By: >>2672837

>>2665468
what for? if you pick a direction with a compass you'll find a road sooner or later

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Nov 2023 04:05:25 No.2666592 Report

Quoted By: >>2669987

I used to actually know how to orienteer with a compass and map and I genuinely totally forgot and now I just use alltrails and it's fine. Your phone has a compass and it works fine.
>but what about the battery
you should bring 2 small battery backups with you

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Nov 2023 04:11:17 No.2666593 Report

Quoted By: >>2672836

>>2665468
there are apps for that these days

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Nov 2023 05:18:32 No.2666622 Report

Quoted By: >>2666627

>>2665468
Holy shit, map and compass is quite literally the easiest skill to learn.
>Compass tells you what direction you are going
>Start at a known point on the map and orient it to where you are headed
>use a protractor and string to determine direction on map and distance you want to go
>get a 100m pace count so you can keep track of how far you have gone.
Congrats, I have taught you the art of orienteering. Watch a youtube video if you need to, it really is a useful skill.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Nov 2023 05:28:07 No.2666627 Report

Quoted By: >>2666633

>>2666622
congrats to you´reself for beign the first autistic enough to reply seriously

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Nov 2023 06:26:30 No.2666633 Report

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>>2666627
tru

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Nov 2023 02:10:48 No.2668198 Report

Quoted By: >>2668211

>>2665468
Maybe there's a good book out there. I forget shit so much books help me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Nov 2023 03:01:33 No.2668211 Report

Quoted By: >>2668571

>>2668198
https://www.troop109nj.com/app/download/5844072/Orienteering+MB+35925_low.pdf

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Nov 2023 03:39:52 No.2668219 Report

Quoted By: >>2669678

>>2665492
wow thanks for rephrasing what anon already said instead of expounding

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 18 Nov 2023 03:09:51 No.2668571 Report

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>>2668211
Nice, thank you

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Nov 2023 23:33:13 No.2669678 Report

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>>2668219
well, there's no like button on this website

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Nov 2023 23:36:56 No.2669681 Report

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>>2665468
>$150
another fool and his money part ways

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Nov 2023 05:24:40 No.2669778 Report

Quoted By: >>2669779

you can learn it anywhere but it won't work unless you actually use it and practice it

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Nov 2023 05:28:46 No.2669779 Report

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>>2669778
Thats what she said

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Nov 2023 18:56:50 No.2669987 Report

Quoted By: >>2674028

>>2666592
This is terrible advice, bordering on trolling. Even with battery banks as backups, smartphone runtime is ass and it is waaaaay too easy to simply break the thing. They're also much more vulnerable to temperature extremes. I have a tank of a commercial phone with extra large battery and serious durability and I still wouldn't intentionally rely on just the phone.
A basic gps is cheap and a few spare AA's will last a long-ass time. The recommedation of GPS plus paper map is a solid one, if you have at least a cheapo $20 backup compass.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Nov 2023 23:19:30 No.2670088 Report

Quoted By: >>2670125

>>2665468
>map and compass
Obsolete since GPS. Don't bother; it's a useless skill.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Nov 2023 02:10:01 No.2670125 Report

Quoted By: >>2672915

>>2670088
Low effort bait, digits not recognized.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Nov 2023 23:04:17 No.2672836 Report

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>>2666593
>just let your phone do everything for you bro--having skills is for chumps
Yes, you're retarded, we get it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Nov 2023 23:05:28 No.2672837 Report

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>>2666585
>what is a declination constant

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 29 Nov 2023 02:50:44 No.2672915 Report

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>>2670125
The phone fags got owned so hard in every app thread this is what they're reduced too. Low effort b8 and seething.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 29 Nov 2023 09:58:18 No.2673004 Report

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>>2665468
Do the course mate, you can't ask YT specific questions and it can't correct you if you get something wrong.
It takes a lot of practice if you want to be able to do it reliably off trail in a forest.
I did 2 years of outdoor training for guiding and instructing (raft, rock, whitewater, bush) and there was fucktons of nav involved.
Had to do 5 day trips in NZ bush (it's fucking dense) and at any time, show with confidence where you were within 50m I think it was.
It's pretty involved.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Dec 2023 19:53:58 No.2674028 Report

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>>2669987
If you need anything more than a grid location from a GPS you have no business going off trail.
AAA is king in the back woods.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Dec 2023 03:23:38 No.2674148 Report

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Can't graduate to terrain association from youtube.

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