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This material is taken from Chapter 6 - Wilderness Travel from The Backpackers Field Manual by Rick Curtis. For more details on this exciting book check out The Backpacker's Field Manual Page. This ...

"Dad? How did people find geocaches before GPSes were invented?" A retro-GeekDad like me longs for a teachable moment like that. The short answer to my son's question was, “We didn't have geocaches ...

1) You’re looking at the land, and your map, but it’s still easy to get turned around. First, orient your map properly to True North (TN). Then you can correlate paper landmarks to real ones. 2) ...

In The Forest, it can be easy to get lost in the dangerous wilderness and labyrinth-like cave systems, but if you have the Map and Compass you will have an easier time keeping track of where you have ...

Well, Google keeps on adding new features to its apps from time to time. And this time around, it is not adding a new feature but bringing back an old feature to Google Maps. Notably, the compass is ...