There’s something about the pull of the great outdoors that seeps into your bones. You start off slow, maybe for a walk in the woods near your house. But soon, that call of the wild has you gearing up ...

Trying to understand how a map relates to what’s on the ground can be tricky. It requires the brain to do a lot of stuff that it doesn’t customarily do daily. This is one of the reasons that ...

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 ...

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 ...

The four main points on a compass are: north, east, south and west. A compass is used to work out direction. A four-point compass can give a rough direction whereas a sixteen-point compass is much ...

After initially removing the compass within Maps on Android way back in early 2019, Google has now restored the much-loved feature after fan pressure. The little floating compass widget was ...

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