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this is great for people who use maps. growing up in and around the PNW and living in the woods most of my life from Kentucky, all the way south to Florida. I never get lost. I never use a compass. even at night. there are great points in this video and I suggest the average hiker listen. 4:15
In Poland, all the mountain trail markings use 12 minutes per kilometre and 12 minutes per 100 metres, which is quite accurate for an average, healthy person. It doesn't work well for steep climbs and steep descents, where you have to slow down.
"Men in fair condition on an easy expedition..." Three miles per hour plus an hour for each 2,000 feet of rise..? Right. After you get your trail legs and while walking a well maintained trail. Not even the Appalachian Trail is always well maintained, so good luck with that. A mile of rough trail, or rock scrambles, can seem like climbing 2,000 feet in itself, and take over an hour to accomplish. Other factors: 1. Pack weight 2. Altitude 3. Sight-seeing 4. Photography 5. Lunch breaks It's a real wonder how folks can do twenty miles in a day. They must be driven by their goals. If you're first starting out, follow one other simple rule: "Be kind to yourself." You'll get used to it.
If you are using the UK Ordnance Survey maps, the grid is formed by lines parallel and perpendicular to the 2° W meridian. Near to this baseline, the deviation between grid north and true north is insignificant, but becomes larger the further east or west you are. The deviation for any given OS map is given in the marginal information, as well as the longitude being shown on the edge of the map.
I hike in the same forest all the time because it's what I have access to. I have almost NO idea how far anything is, I only measure time. Some trails are brutal, 1, maybe 2 miles an hour. If something takes 90 minutes to get to, it's either several miles or REALLY tough terrain 😂.
love your videos. your method of teaching is spot on for me . always called my navigation skills very basic, was very suprised at what i deem very basic is actually classed as intermediate. you hit the nail on the head when you said this is the level of skill needed for walking in the hills, i think that’s the reason i’ve always told myself i have basic skills. the additional historical info is fastinating
Why in kilometres, surely being in the uk it should be in miles? That wind chill formula in America must be wrong, because everyone speeds up when crossing the road🤔😁
Because in the UK all maps are metric, Mind you the UK is (just a bit) a bit crazy as road signs are in miles, fuel sales are metric litres, air pressure is measured in imperial PSI, beer is sold in pints, etc. It can get a little confusing even for those living in the UK for example TV’s are measured in cm’s but TV screens are always given in inches. Steel pipe is sized in inches but copper pipe is in mm’s. Etc. Etc.
Am I missing something? One of the first pictures says 10km walk @ 1.23 km per hour would take 12.3 hours? That's totally wrong, it's 10 divided by 1.23, which is just over 8 hours.
I think to be very good with map and compass navigation, but these solution -aim off- was unknown to me and i never came up this idee. Even if this is a very logic method. I am writing a manual for map, compass and GPS navigation. Especially the different coordinates systems, map reference frames, the map projections, the different circumferences 360°, 400 gon, the Mils, etc. Thanks for this valuable hint. In other of your video's i found more than once interesting tips. I like your videos, wel explained and correct. Unfortunately i see about these items so many junk, here on YT or on the internet, sometimes they are even really dangerous.
Can you help me out on the math at the beginning of the clip? If you need to walk 10km and you are walking at a pace of 1.23km/h it should take 8.13 hours not 12.3 hours.
I have a question, when did we start using metric for distance in the UK. It seems to be getting used more and more. As I understand it, we still use the imperial measurement to work out our distance traveled etc.
In the UK (I don’t know about other countries) it was 1969 that OS started to issue public maps at 1:10,000 & 1:50,000 (metric) and these were to replace the 1:10,560 (imperial) old style maps.
From my personal exp here in Algeria, relying on google maps blindly is stupid, it's helpful specially in densely populated areas, when stuck in traffic, but it sometimes lead you in restricted roads, wrong directions ..etc I had better experience with open street maps, because they put their trust into the users editing unlike google. also my old phone's gps stopped wroking once during a trip in the sahara desert to tamanrasset, imagine you rely on your gps or phone during a mission critical trip and it fails yo, luckily i didn't had to and i was just on taking the main road and using common sense. open flat swaths of lands without any landmarks or terrain are certainly terrfing because you can get easily lost in them and you can miss your target even if it;s just a hundred metters away if its low on the ground like a water well.
Why would you need so many different types of compasses?, if you are in the North a free suspended bar magnetic aligns North without dipping, same at the equator and same further south, it still points North.
