Wilderness Navigation: Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter, & Gps (Paperback)

~ (Author), Mike Burns (Author), Paul Hughes (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

An ideal book for those who aspire to travel with precision in the backcountry. -- Lewiston Morning Tribune

An ideal book for those who aspire to travel with precision in the backcountry. -- Lewiston Morning Tribune<br /><br />An informative book on how to walk in the woods. -- Reel News<br /><br />Even if you've never held a compass or GPS, you'll have an idea of how they work. -- Sweat magazine<br /><br />If you're planning a wilderness excursion, swallow your pride and pick up Wilderness Navigation. -- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review<br /><br />Required reading for anyone who spends time in the outdoors with a map and compass. -- St. Paul Pioneer Press<br /><br />[E]ssentials for using a map and a compass as well as easy and practical techniques for using global positioning devices. --Willoughby (OH) News-Herald

An informative book on how to walk in the woods. -- Reel News

Even if you've never held a compass or GPS, you'll have an idea of how they work. -- Sweat magazine

If you're planning a wilderness excursion, swallow your pride and pick up Wilderness Navigation. -- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Required reading for anyone who spends time in the outdoors with a map and compass. -- St. Paul Pioneer Press

[E]ssentials for using a map and a compass as well as easy and practical techniques for using global positioning devices. -- Willoughby (OH) News-Herald --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Description

*Covers tools and skills for orientation, navigation and route-finding

*Gives particular attention to off-trail navigation with altimeter and GPS
*Appendix offers 30 practice problems

"So ah . . . where do you think we are?"

While you may never have asked this question, there are thousands of hikers, backcountry skiers and snowshoers, climbers, fishermen, hunters and forest workers who have. Wilderness Navigation is the concise, focused, and affordable answer to that question.

Based on the experience of helping revise the navigation section of the best-selling climbing textbook, Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills, and years of teaching wilderness navigation, the authors have expanded the material in Freedom using the most reliable, dependable, and easy-to-learn methods ever devised.

Wilderness Navigation will answer all your questions on reading maps; buying a compass; using a compass, a clinometer, an altimeter, and a GPS; orientation with map and compass; how to avoid getting lost; and what to do if you get lost. It also covers wilderness routefinding on trails, in the forest, in alpine areas, and on snow and glaciers.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 125 pages
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books; 1st edition (April 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898866294
• ISBN-13: 978-0898866292
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,087,444 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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75 of 84 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Wilderness navigation, December 14, 1999

By	Timothy Watters "TW" (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book may be small enough to carry as a primer on land navigation for folks venturing into the wilds without knowledge or experience of map and compass skills.

However, as a text on land navigation skills it was disappointing. Better choices would be the Land Navigation Handbook: The Sierra Club Guide to Map and Compass by W. Kals (excellent) or M. Ferguson's GPS Land Navigation: A Complete Guidebook for Backcountry Users of the NAVSTAR Satellite System (also excellent).

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introductory volume, May 8, 2003

By A Customer

I have been teaching orienteering for seven years, and this book is everything I could ask for in an introductory text. There are more advanced books, it is true, but this book is reasonably priced, highly readable, and complete enough for the beginning through intermediate adventurer.

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Concise nice book, October 17, 2003

By	MT "Marcov" (Mexico City) - See all my reviews

I am glad of to have bought this book, and here is the reason.

-Written by experts
-procedures explained clearly
-No time wasting, lessons cut the chase

CONCRETE and CONCISE

In a sure and concise way this book will explain you how to use map and compass so simple, in an easy way and without time wasting

OFFERS USEFUL EXTRA INFORMATION

Book have explanations about how to use altimeters and some considerations about altimeter performance under different weather conditions and this a good reason to include this book in your shopping list.

I have bought other 2 books about map and compass using, and this book includes information others doesn't have

BEST STARTING POINT

If you are looking for a concise introductory and well explained-compact book then this is the book for you, no doubt!