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Route Finding: Navigating with Map and Compass |  | Author: Gregory Crouch
Publisher: Falcon
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1029872
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 96
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4 x 0.2
ISBN: 1560448202
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.58
UPC: 031623448207
EAN: 9781560448204
ASIN: 1560448202
Publication Date: June 1, 1999
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Product Description
To venture away from the security of known roads and trails requires the ability to find your own way without the help of road signs and trail markers. In Route Finding, veteran explorer and climber Gregory Crouch deftly guides you through the fundamental skills of land navigation, including terrain association, dead reckoning, off- and on-trail travel, map reading, using a compass, and even Global Positioning System basics. A valuable book for hikers, backpackers, climbers, hunters, anglers, and mountain bikers, Route Finding contains helpful and practical information on locating your position at all times and in all conditions. Filled with detailed instructions and descriptive illustrations, Route Finding is as packable as a compass and informative enough to take you into the wilderness and home again.
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 Route Finding September 28, 2007
Sam Adams (Minnesota. USA)
This 96 page book is an excellent first look at navigating with a compass and topographic maps. The writing is clear and well paced, and the layout allows for easy reading and review. The illustrations are useful and cleanly drawn. There is no clutter in this book. The author has done an excellent job.
This book assumes you have a baseplate compass and it does not discuss methods of locating north without one. Two pages explain the meaning of magnetic north, true north, and grid north, but in the discussion of declination there is no illustration showing how these vary in degree across the North American continent. A final chapter introduces latitude, longitude, the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid and the Military Grid Reference System (MGRS). The chapter on dead-reckoning is excellent.
The book is filled with helpful tips and good sense. It will not be your final look at the science and art of navigation but it is a very good place to begin.
 Very Basic May 27, 2000
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
This book covers all of the necessary skills in order to find your way in the wilderness. However, it does so in such a superficial way that you come away from the book wondering whether you will be able to perform any of the skills in the real world.This is a rather disconcerting feeling to take away from a book like this, since people are going to get lost in the wilderness and then not know what to do. Such a subject should be covered fully, or not at all. If you are new to reading maps and land navigation, then you need more than this book will give you. I suggest Sierra's guide to land navigation for a beginning. If you know what you are doing with map and compass, then this book won't give you any new information. It is small enough to stick in your pocket, but I can think of lots of things I'd rather carry for a week on my back (food...water...a good novel...).
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