- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Mountaineers Books; illustrated edition edition (July 1 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0898866294
- ISBN-13: 978-0898866292
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.5 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 91 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,425,238 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book 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.
About the Author
Bob Burns and Mike Burns are active instructors of wilderness navigation. Bob Burns has participated in three revisions of Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills. They both live in Seattle, Washington.
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Wilderness Navigation: Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter, & GPS, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
I have been a Search Master/Manager for some time. Purchased this book (and others) solely as a reference guide to see if it could assist me in assisting others in how to learn navigation using compass, altimeter, GPS etc. The title within "Mountaineers outdoor basics" indicated to me the level of complexity.It is a superb book for those who are starting out or who have been absent from this area of skill for some time. It clearly educates you in the basics and some common mistakes in areas titled tips. Book is well laid out and can be used by age groups from early teens to adults. Sound product. Chapters Map Basics Compass Basics Orientation with Map and Compass Navigation with Map and Compass Lost More about maps More about Compasses and Geomagnetism The Altimeter The Global Positioning System - GPS Wilderness Route finding
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent introductory volume,
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This review is from: Wilderness Navigation: Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter, and GPS (Paperback)
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.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Concise nice book,
By MT "Marcov" (Mexico City) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wilderness Navigation: Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter, and GPS (Paperback)
I am glad of to have bought this book, and here is the reason.-Written by experts 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!
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