Dead Reckoning for Land Navigation 

Best bloke on RU-vid. Keep it up mate 👍 It's great.

I love your inclusion of historical facts. These things make the walks so much more interesting.

In July 2023, Yosemite National Park requested that cairns be "knocked over" to preserve the "Leave No Trace" philosophy. Cairns have guided hiker in the high country for years and I hope the "knock over" request doesn't spread outside the park.

Great work. You should write a book about navigation and surviving outside, as I guess you have already written/put together all the materials.

Well done. Clear and concise.

Excellent...👍.

I admire how quick you do calculations in your head on the fly. I guess it comes with preactice; which is something I should do more often.

Thanks for another great video. I always get something out of them.

You are a brilliant educator.

Only recently discovered this channel, a great find! Great video, look forward to the search techniques video soon 😀

Great real world navigation video. Thanks for the information.

Excellent teaching. Good, refresher thank you.

I was walking in that very spot last Monday! Thanks for the videos Wayne.

You are the Keith Floyd of navigation. Brilliant presentation 👍

as always - brillant, brilliant video, a real human and please keep up with the waffle....we all love it, its always useful and interesting!

Thank you for all your fine work and video productions. Enjoying your lessons as I watch the snow fall (Western Canada) and wait for Spring and my outdoor treks! Wayne

Useful information well presented. As usual on this channel.

Thank you

Excellent as always! Your maps are so detailed! It is as though they’ve built history right into the map!Our USGS maps of the southwest show terrain quite well but very few of the features are actually named. Of course, the features are all named but if you want to know you have to ask a local.😊

Your advice is so like a book.. You really should consider writing a book

Greetings from masono/judeo America. Love the lectures, best ever! Thank you for your service to education, teacher! Best regards!!! Later.

Love your presentations! I had only heard of Dead Reckoning in a seafaring context, e.g. if you don't reckon it correctly; you're dead! I grew up on C.S. Forrester's Hornblower Saga and other seafaring stories. As an avid hiker, this is very useful! Love that map protector too. Cheese and onion sandwiches sound marvelous! You should try some of our Georgia Vidalia onions. I'm told they're sweet enough that you can eat them like an apple. Sadly, I don't live in Georgia, I live in the Desert Southwest of the USA.

that was amazingly clear! now i understand yet another map reading skill! i'll never be able to get lost 😂 (well locationally challenged anyway!) and never... more like not as likely get lost! 😂😂

Started watching your videos to help me out with backpacking and I am pursuing a military career as well. There are so many videos out there on how to do land nav etc but yours are so simple and straight forward.I applaud the way you make it so easy for viewers to follow with examples etc. These have proven invaluable to me. I watch a few per night and rewatch anything I need to brush up on. Thanks again !

I don't know how widespread the practice was, but the spoil heaps at my end of the Pennines were also being washed with cyanide to improve the yield of the ores. I was told that was why nothing grows on them, rather than the lead, but I could be wrong.

For me, the most important thing is keeping track of how large my error is. If I pace off 600 meters, how far will I have walked? It's not 600 meters, it's somewhere between 580 and 620 meters, or between 500 and 700 meters, depending upon the terrain. Similarly, if I'm following a bearing of 83 magnetic, what course did I follow? Between 80 and 86, or 78 and 88, again depending upon terrain. When you finish your leg, you might be 50m from your destination, or 200m, depending. Don't expect everything to happen perfectly. Expect there to be an error and plan for it. If you're aiming for a spot on a linear feature, intentionally aim to one side. That way when you get to it you know which way to turn. Don't follow an 800m compass bearing trying to find some point in an open field, walk to the closest identifiable landmark and plot a compass bearing from there.

Hello, came across your videos a while ago and find them really informative. As a newbie however I find OS maps to be rather busy at times (bought a couple) and I worry about not recognising features or even trails. Could you possibly do an introduction to common map features and what they actually look like in real life please? To you they are obvious but I lack confidence, I know it could be a time consuming project so if it's not possible I understand if you can't. cheers, Tom.

Cor, could have placed a few rocks , and started a baby cairn. 😢. I’m feeling a bit sad.

Nice camera hope own like this one someday😢

Thank you. My true problem is having a map for an area before I even start. I tend to deca short road trip to a natural area on the fly. Therefore I tend to not be prepared with paper map.

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Really easy teaching yet again. Do you teach the mnemonic DD Craps. Maybe that would make a good vid mate.

Question? Once I adjust my declination for where I am at then it’s good for a year in that same area? Also am I to always adjust to map north when they made it when using maps? Or do I just go with true north after declination adjustment. Just curious what you think about that?

Can u make a vid on how to make a map ? For example u got compass and some unmaped land. Would be interesting and helpful

Quick question please...when you put the compass on the map at 6:15 did you align the base plate to your current location and the cairn ? Thanks !

Is it possible to navigate in a forest only with a campass without a map

somethings are on a map but not in reality so that the map companies can catch people copying their maps without consent.

I really appreciate your efforts. 🫡