Here are ‘09 never get lost navigation tricks‘ to assist you when you have a good working compass or no compass at all.
If you find yourself lost or mis-orientated in the wilderness without a compass, it’s even worse to wander aimlessly in an environment that can KILL YOU!! Once you decide to “homestead” at your chosen survival site that satisfies the 8 Elements of Survival (Fire, Water, Shelter, First-Aid, Signal, Food, Weapons, and Navigation), it’s imperative that you’re well orientated to your “new home!”
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You could build a nice warm shelter, get a fire going with a few traps and snares, go off and procure water and without knowing your direction and whereabouts, never make it back to your survival site! Your back to where you started – lost without anything! You’re really part of the food-chain now! Now you’re really asking for it!
There are several methods by which you can accurately determine direction by using the sun, trees, stars, moon, home-made devices and even simple 3rd grade math! These methods will give you only general direction and not to the exact degree as with a compass. However, a good direction is better than guessing and you end up wandering aimlessly!
On a clear day, it’s quite obvious at dawn where east is and where west is at dusk. However, it could be so overcast you could barely see 100 feet in front of you or you could find yourself wandering helplessly at night. You could be without any form of conventional directional finding equipment.
The following proven field-expedient direction-finding methods will set you off in the right direction! Let’s start with the Shadow-Tip Method.
- Shadow-Tip Method
- Watch Method for Northern Temperate Zone
- Watch Method for Southern Temperate Zone
- Knife – Thumb Nail Method
- Field-Expedient Compass
- Field-Expedient Mobile Bottle-Top Compass
- Tree Rings Method
- Crescent Moon Method
- Mathematical True South & True North.
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01) Shadow-Tip Method. Everywhere on the Earth the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Therefore, the following steps for the shadow-tip method are the same wherever you are!
a) Secure a 03 stick vertically in the ground. Mark the tip of the casting shadow from the vertical stick with a small stone.
b) Wait ten to fifteen minutes or until the shadow has moved 01 1\2 to 02 inches.
c) Mark the tip of the second casting shadow with a small stone.
d) Draw a line from the first mark through and about a foot beyond the second mark.
e) Stand with your left foot on the first mark (right foot if you’re in the Southern Temperate Zone) and your right foot (left foot if you’re in the Southern Temperate Zone) on the end of the line that you just drew.
f) If you are in the Northern Temperate Zone, you will be facing a Northerly direction. If you are in the Southern Temperate Zone, you will also be facing in a Northerly direction.
g) Keep in mind that if you’re in the Southern Temperate Zone, place your left foot on the first mark and your right foot on the line that is aligned with the second mark – you’re facing North!
HINT: You should be facing the stick if you’re in the Southern Temperate Zone!
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02) Watch Method for Northern Temperate Zone. You can also determine direction using a watch. Procedures in the Northern Temperate Zone (north of the equator) are as follows:
a) Take your watch and hold it with both hands horizontally in front of you so that you can read it.
b) Maintaining the wristwatch horizontally, point the hour hand in the direction of the sun (to attain a better aim, draw an imaginary vertical line down from the sun to the horizontal plane of the earth’s surface and point the hour hand at this imaginary vertical line).
c) Maintaining the aim of the watch, draw an imaginary horizontal line between the hour hand and twelve o’clock. This is the north – south line. As you are looking at the imaginary horizontal line between the hour hand and the twelve o’clock; this is the south line and the opposite line is the north line.
d) For daylight savings time, instead of using twelve o’clock use one o’clock for an accurate direction.
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03) Watch Method for Southern Temperate Zone. You can also determine direction using a watch. Procedures in the Southern Temperate Zone are as follows:
a) Take your watch and hold it with both hands horizontally in front of you so that you can read it.
b) Maintaining the wristwatch horizontally, point the twelve o’clock in the direction of the sun (to attain a better aim, draw an imaginary vertical line down from the sun to the horizontal plane of the earth’s surface and point the twelve o’clock at this imaginary vertical line).
c) Maintaining the aim of the watch, draw an imaginary horizontal line between the hour hand and twelve o’clock. This is the north – south line. As you are looking at the imaginary horizontal line between the hour hand and the twelve o’clock; this is the north line, and the opposite line is the south line.
d) For daylight savings time, instead of using twelve o’clock use one o’clock for an accurate direction.
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04) Knife – Thumb Nail Method. If you are dealing with an overcast – cloudy day, and unable to use the shadow-tip method or watch method; here is another field expedient direction-finding method.
a) Place a vertically pointed knife on your thumb nail. You doing this because you’re attempting to cast a shadow on your thumb nail. Even the most overcast day, the sun will cast a small shadow!
b) Maintaining the vertically pointed blade on your thumb nail, rotate your body till the shadow on your thumb nail is the thinnest.
c) In the morning you are facing east, mid-day you are facing north, and in the afternoon you are facing west.
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OK, we just covered about half of the ’09 never get lost navigation tricks.’ Are you ready to go over the rest of them? If not, take a break. OK are you ready for the remaining ’09 never get lost navigation tricks’? OK, let’s start with making a field-expedient compass that really works.
05) Field-Expedient Needle Leaf\Paper Compass. If you find yourself lost or mis-orientated in the wilderness without a compass, it’s even worse to wander aimlessly in an environment that can KILL YOU!! Once you decide to “homestead” at your chosen survival site it’s imperative that you’re well orientated to your “new home!” You could build-up a nice shelter, get a fire going, set-up a few traps and snares, go off and procure water and without knowing your direction and whereabouts, never make it back to your survival site! You’re back where you started from – lost without anything again!
There are several methods by which you can accurately determine general direction and not to the exact degree as with a compass.
On a clear day, it’s quite obvious at dawn where east is and where west is at dusk. However, it could be so overcast throughout the day, you’ll barely see 100 feet in front of you! You could also find yourself wandering helplessly at night. You could be without any form of conventional directional finding equipment.
You can actually find Magnetic North by using the following technique. You’ll need a light metal object for a compass needle like a staple, paperclip, sewing needle…, a leaf, or a piece of toilet paper, and a rock.
A natural rock, NOT a brick, piece of asphalt… A natural rock has a small degree of radioactivity, so you’re able to magnetize a metal object.
Obtain a natural rock and your metal object and rub one-end of the metal object (the end you want to point Magnetic North) against the rock in one direction like petting a cat. Do this about 25-times.
Verify your new compass needle is magnetized by attracting or picking up another small metal object.
Now get some water and pour it any small object you have available. It must be 01 1/2 times the size of your leaf or paper that will hold and carry your magnetized compass needle. You can even dig a small hole and pour water into it!
Take a piece of toilet paper or leaf and gently place it on the water’s surface. The paper or leaf should be just slightly larger than the magnetized compass needle! Next gently place your magnetized compass needle on top of it. It should immediately start to turn to Magnetic North!
Just to make sure, verify this North seeking needle by one of the other direction-finding methods you’re learning about in this Survival Expert Blog post.
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The next field-expedient direction method I want to show you is my original method which is the Bottle-Top Compass!
Before we start, let me give this advice that will cost you a lousy $4 and may prevent you from future “Where the heck am I adventures!” It’s a wrist compass. I ALWAYS wear a wrist compass which is right next to my Casio Data Bank watch. With wear & tear and all the banging, wrist compasses should last about 03 or 04 years! So go out and get a wrist compass and slide it on your present watch band. You’ll be ready Anytime Anywhere! Just the same let me tell you about a field-expedient compass you can make from things all around you. No doubt you can improvise and come up with your own idea! Are you ready? Let’s begin.
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06) Field-Expedient Mobile Bottle-Top Compass
A technique for a field-expedient compass that you can walk and run with is the Bottle-Top Compass! Here are the ingredients to construct different variations of the Bottle-Top Compass.
You’ll need a metal staple, a piece of saran wrap – 01 06″ X 06″, a plastic bottle-top, a rubber-band, scissors, a natural rock, a dab of petroleum jelly – the clear kind, two pieces of wooden matches (1/4-inch), and a little water. ALL of these items (except water & scissors) are located in my 100+ Uses Pocket Canister Survival Kit!
If you want you can also have a 9-volt battery and a two pieces of single-strand bell copper wire 18-gauge (thin) about 09-inches long. I’ll explain, keep reading. Do all the following steps on a wooden table or on the ground so to get a good working compass that isn’t affected any metal interference.
a) Secure a staple, straighten it out then bend one end of it to the inside so it looks like a half-arrow. Rub the half-arrow end on a magnet (north pole side) or a rock (a natural rock – not a piece of concrete) about 20-25 times to magnetize it. Rub it one direction and not back and forth.
ALL natural rocks have some degree of radioactivity, therefore your staple can be magnetized by any rock as long as it’s natural and not man-made like a piece of concrete, brick…
Insure you rub the end of the staple that you bent back to look like a half-arrow. This end should point to Magnetic North which is located in North Central Canada- the Hudson Bay area!
As a matter of fact, according to my Rand Mc Nally Magnetic North is located on Ellesmere Island (northern Canada) – on line with Amarillo Texas. Just line-up the North Pole with Amarillo Texas and go south 1,000 miles from the North Pole, you’ll find Magnetic North!
b) To VERIFY that your staple is magnetized, touch it to another un-magnetized staple – it should attract it and lift it up and hold it!
Before I go on, let me explain something to you about magnetizing a compass needle with an ordinary magnet. Every magnet has a North Pole and a South Pole. I’ve bent the staple just like I told you so I know which end of the staple is supposed to point magnetic North, but guess what? The North-end of the staple was pointing South? Why?
It turns out the opposite end was inadvertently magnetized on the South Pole side of the magnet! Now, I have a magnet that has one side painted white. This is my North-end of my magnet! So from now on, I know every time I rub a staple on the white-side of the magnet, it will ALWAYS point NORTH!
So when you do magnetize a compass needle with a magnet (or any other method) and you’re unsure about the North & South Poles – you must back-up and verify your compass with one of the other field-expedient methods you’ll learn about in this Section.
Later I’ll show you another way of magnetizing a staple, pin, paper clip,… so you already know for sure which end of the staple will point North!
However, I feel the easiest way and probably the best way to magnetize a compass needle is to use a small magnet that has identifying North & South Poles. At the end of this section, I’ll give you a POC so you can get all the magnets you want real super cheap – and they already have identifying North & South Poles! They’ll send you a FREE catalog packed with goodies you’ll need in any of your outdoor adventures!
So the motto here is, once you complete the construction of your Bottle-Top Compass, back it up with one of the other methods of field-expedient directions you’re learning in this Section.
Anyway, remember I had you bend the end of the staple being magnetized into a half-arrow shape so you know which end of the needle should point North – if it’s magnetized properly! Let’s continue with making your Bottle-Top Compass.
c) Take a 01 1/2 by 01 1/2 inch piece of saran wrap and very lightly smear it with a little dab of petroleum jelly – the clear kind. This will be your water-tight sealant so your compass needle floats.
d) Take your magnetized staple and place it in the center of the saran wrap and fold the saran wrap tightly around the staple-side of the magnetized staple. Flatten-out the saran wrap with your thumb and index finger. You should have a nice airtight seal and squeeze out any excess petroleum jelly. You’re doing this to insure that your magnetized needle floats and doesn’t carry any excess weight.
e) Take your scissors and cut-away the excess portions of the saran wrap till you have a neatly magnetized staple that can fit in the bottle-top. You’ll have to cut real close to the edges of your magnetized needle but not too close!
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Here’s another technique, you can also sandwich your magnetized staple between two pieces of thin clear plastic that’s prepared with petroleum jelly. Just very lightly coat two pieces of plastic with petroleum jelly put them together with your magnetized staple between them. Last, just cut off the excess plastic so your needle floats freely in the bottle-top.
Here’s another technique to get your needle to float. Take two pieces of Strike Anywhere Matches – 1/4 inch. Take these two pieces and glue them side-by-side. Use some water-resistant type glue (Scotch Permanent Adhesive, Elmer’s Stix-All…). You can also use tree sap from pine trees… Once the two pieces of wood are glued together, glue your magnetized needle to the top of those two pieces of wood!
f) Secure the bottle-top and fill it till it’s 3\4 full of water.
g) Next take your water-proof\magnetized compass needle and GENTLY place it in the center of the water-filled bottle-top.
It should FLOAT and move freely till it finally points MAGNETIC NORTH! INSURE it isn’t affected by near-by metal objects. You may have to jiggle your compass needle in case it gets caught-up on the side of the plastic bottle-top. Insure you hold it level.
h) Take 01 1/2 X 01 1/2 inch of saran wrap and place it over the open-end of the bottle-top and secure it tightly with your rubber-band. This will keep the water from escaping or leaking out. You now have a WORKABLE COMPASS you can walk and run with throughout your survival area and beyond! Do not cut-off any excess saran wrap from the plastic bottle top, you may need some of it to wrap another compass needle in the future.
i) Through my experience I have found that after 02-weeks or so, the magnetized needle somehow collects mold which actually de-magnetizes the needle. I believe this is due to the sugar content remaining in the bottle-top. No problem though, just disassemble & clean everything and re-magnetize the staple\needle! Now let me tell you about another proven method for magnetizing a compass needle!
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How to Magnetize Your Needle With A 9-Volt Battery!
a) Take 02 pieces of high-numbered gauge (thin) copper wire. The length of each wire should be about 09-inches. Strip about 01 1/2 inches of insulation from each end of each wire. The four pieces of stripped insulation – DON’T throw them away. They can always be used for something – like fire starting, bait…! As I tell ALL my students “NEVER throw anything away, one way or another it’s good for something – somewhere at some time!”
b) Take the end of the staple that you want magnetized -you want to point North and bend it to the inside on itself to form a half-arrow. The other end is straight.
c) Take one wire and make small tight wraps on the end of the staple that forms a half-arrow. About 03 tight wraps should do. If you find that it’s difficult to wrap the copper wire around the staple, your wire is too big -too thick. You need smaller gauge wire – meaning a smaller width of copper wire.
d) Take your other wire and make 03 tight wraps on the other end (straight-end) of the staple. The wire wraps must be tight to make contact with staple so to magnetize it from the electrical current from the 9-volt battery.
Speaking of 9-volt batteries, to make sure you have a good one, I’ll tell you what I do. I just put both leads (positive & negative) to my tongue. If I feel a good strong tingling sensation, the 9-volt battery is a fully charged. If the tingling sensation is just a weak fizzle – you need to get a new battery.
e) Now the wire that is attached to the half-arrow end of the staple, wrap the other end of that wire to the POSITIVE POLE on the 9-volt battery. The other wire that is wrapped on the opposite end of the staple, wrap that wire to the NEGATIVE POLE of the 9-volt battery.
KEEP ALL WIRES IN PLACE for about 10-15 seconds and then disconnect everything. You now have a magnetized staple\needle (half-arrow end) that should point Magnetic North to the Hudson Bay area in North Central Canada. All compasses point to this area! As a matter, what you just read and did is how compasses are made!
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f) Since I’m always magnetizing staples, needles, paper clips… for compass needles, I take a short-cut. I went to radio shack and got a pack of 9-volt battery adapters which have black & red wires. I also got a small pack of alligator clips and attached them.
This way, I just hook-up a 9-volt battery to the adaptor and attached the POSITIVE alligator clip to the end of the staple I want to point North and the NEGATIVE alligator clip to the other end of the staple. I wait about 15-seconds and the staple is properly magnetized. If everything is hooked-up more than a few minutes you have a field-expedient hand-warmer! But I wouldn’t do this, the battery could explode or probably start an accidental fire.
g) Now just follow the steps B through H of previous instructions to complete your Bottle-Top Compass.
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One other matter about navigation and North! There are Three Types Of North. They is:
- Magnetic North
- Grid North
- True North!
Magnetic North is the North that all compasses point towards! They all point towards Ellesmere Island which is located in northern Canada.
Grid North are the North-South Grid Lines (up & down lines) on a map! These Grid North Lines on a map and Magnetic North according to your compass point or aim in two different directions. Except for maybe Columbus GA and another place on the opposite side of the Earth – can’t recall the place.
Anyway, what I’m trying to tell you, is you must compensate for the difference! In Columbus, GA the difference is a 1/2 degree or so, no big deal, but in Washington on the west coast for example, it’s a lot!
To actually go Magnetic North 0 or 360 degrees in Washington – straight-up the map, you’ll have to subtract approximately 21 degrees from 360 degrees to go straight- up your map! The angel between grid north and magnetic north is called the Grid – Magnetic Angle or G-M angle for short.
In other words, to walk straight-up the map, right up that Grid North Line in Washington state, you’ll have to adjust your compass to a 339-degree magnetic azimuth not 360 or 0 degrees. If not, you’re actually going Northeast instead of North! You’re traveling 21 degrees magnetic!
Could you imagine trying to go dead North in Hawaii with your compass and you haven’t adjusted for the Grid-Magnetic (GM) Angle!!! I’m guessing, but I bet there is a 45-degree difference! You’re actually walking half-right from North. Even at 1 single mile, you’re really OFF track, really OFF the mark – you’re really lost from the very beginning!!
Yes, I know your Bottle-Top field-expedient compass isn’t a fine-tuned $70 compass! I’m just making you aware that the Ellesmere Island (northern Canada) area pulls ALL compasses towards this area and depending on your position on the Earth, you’ll have to compensate differently for that magnetic pull.
LISTEN if the magnetic pull were center mass of the North Pole – if we could take the Ellesmere Island (northern Canada) – magnetic north and relocate it to the center of the North Pole, nobody would have to worry about any compensation! But we do! Too bad! You could have a good workable $70 compass, but if you don’t know and understand the three different Norths, you’re still lost!
Last item, True North. I said Magnetic North is located at Ellesmere Island (northern Canada), and Grid North are those up and down lines on your map. Now True North is the North Star which can be seen over the North Pole!
So if you want to go North where ever you’re at on the Earth, look for the North Star! But as your teacher, I would NEVER suggest you travel at night in a wilderness environment or any environment!
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By the way, did you see the movie The Edge with the actors Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin? Great movie, but Anthony Hopkins should have rubbed that paper clip on a natural rock instead of silk! Second, did he consider compensating for the magnetic pull from the Ellesmere Island (northern Canada)? No! And third, did they back-up their direction-finding method with another method? NO! Yes, I could go on and on, but that was a movie!
They actually headed west instead of south like they wanted because they did not compensate for the huge G-M angle. I’m not sure what it is, but I bet it’s a bunch!
If you haven’t seen The Edge, go see it! It’s great entertainment! Below is a sketch of how they screwed-up (going west instead of south) because they didn’t compensate for the G-M Angle!
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I hope you learn a valuable lesson. IRISAP is constructing a Basic Map Reading Course. All subscribers will be alerted when it is complete! Now below is a sketch of the three Norths as they interrelate with each other.
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7) Tree Rings Method. If you come across a allen tree (at least 08-inches in diameter), look at the stump. You’ll notice that the tree rings are wider in one section of the stump. This indicates the direction of south because the sun swings on the southern side of trees because we’re in the Northern Hemisphere!
The tree rings are wider on one side because it gets more sunlight and warmth than the other side. The rings are wider on the southern side of the tree stump.
The exact opposite is true in the Southern Hemisphere (south of the Equator). The tree rings are wider on the northern side of the stump because the sun swings to the northern side of the trees, thus getting more sun and warmth!
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08) Crescent Moon Method. How about field-expedient direction at night! However, my best advice is to stay static at night. Make camp at least 02-hours before dark and cover the 8 Elements Of Survival (Fire, Water, Shelter, First-Aid, Signal, Food, Weapons and Navigation).
Anyway, let’s look at the moon for field-expedient navigation. If you don’t know it already, the moon has no light source of its own! When you do see the moon it’s because it’s reflecting the sun’s light!
The moon orbits the earth and it takes about 28-days to do this. And of course the Earth orbits the sun and rotates at the same time!
Now depending on the cast of the Earth’s shadow on the moon or lack of it (moon reflecting the sun’s light) will give us an indicator of direction – namely south (Northern Hemisphere only).
When you see a crescent moon (less than half moon), you’ll notice the top pointed end of the moon and bottom pointed end of the moon are facing at an angle or straight downward towards the Earth.
Draw an imaginary line from the top point of the crescent moon to the bottom point of the crescent moon. Draw the imaginary line to the horizon. Where this imaginary line contacts the Earth is the approximate direction of South (for Northern Hemisphere). Here are 03 examples of using a Crescent Moon to find a “southerly direction.”
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09) Mathematical True South & True North. What I’m going to show you now is a method to find True South (South Pole) by simply using a little math! There are two methods, one if your North of the Equator (Northern Temperate Zone) and a similar method if your South of the Equator (Southern Temperate Zone)!
a) Northern Temperate Zone-To Find True South
First, all you have to do is find out what time the sun comes up (sunrise\dawn) in the morning and what time the sun goes down (sunset\dusk) at night
Next once you know what time the sun comes up and when it goes down, you’ll subtract the sunrise time from the sunset time (use military time). See my example.
1900 hours————Sunset
-0600 hours————Sunrise
1300 hours————difference
Next, take your answer of 1300 hours and divide by 02. See my example:
1300 divided by 2 = 6 1/2 or 6:30 hours
Next, we’ll add 6:30 hours to the sunrise time (0600 hours). See my example:
0600 (sunrise) + 0630 = 1230 hours!
Now at 1230 hours (approximately noon), just drawn an imaginary line down from the sun to the horizon. Where this imaginary line connects to the horizon, this direction is True South (in-line with the South Pole)!
Now, as you’re facing South, you can easily find all the other directions! North is to your rear, West is to your right, and East is to your left! As your instructor, try to use one of the other methods of direction-finding to verify your direction!
Was that easy or what! After I tell you about the next method (which is similar to the method you just completed), I’ll give you a chart so you can easily look-up and know how to find True South (North of the Equator) throughout the year.
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Mathematical True South (North Temperate Zone)
b) Southern Temperate Zone-To Find True North
First, all you have to do is find out what time the sun comes up (sunrise\dawn) in the morning and what time the sun goes down (sunset\dusk) at night
Next once you know what time the sun comes up and when it goes down, you’ll subtract the sunrise time from the sunset time (use military time). See my example.
2100 hours————Sunset
-0630 hours————Sunrise
1430 hours————difference
Next, take your answer of 1430 hours and divide by 2. See my example:
1430 divided by 2 = 0715 hours
Next, we’ll add 0715 hours to the sunrise time (0630 hours). See my example:
0630 (sunrise) + 0715 = 1345 hours!
Now at 1345 hours, just drawn an imaginary line down from the sun to the horizon. Where this imaginary line connects to the horizon, this direction is True North (in-line with the North Pole)!
Now, as you’re facing North, you can easily find all the other directions! South is to your rear, West is to your left, and East is to your right! As your instructor, try to use one of the other methods of direction-finding to verify your direction!
Mathematical True North (South Temperate Zone)
Now I’ll give you a chart so you can easily look-up and know how to find True South (North of the Equator) throughout the year.
True South Chart (Northern Temperate Zone) CST – 1998
MONTH SUNRISE SUNSET DIFFERENCE TRUE SOUTH TIME
Jan 01 0717 1649 0932 1203 hours
Jan 15 0716 1702 0946 1209 hours
Feb 01 0705 1721 1016 1213 hours
Feb 15 0651 1737 1046 1214 hours
Mar 01 0632 1752 1120 1212 hours
Mar 15 0611 1806 1155 1208 hours
Apr 01 0545 1822 1237 1203 hours
Apr 15 0624 1935 1311 1259 hours
May 01 0602 1951 1349 1257 hours
May 15 0548 2004 1416 1256 hours
Jun 01 0537 2017 1440 1257 hours
Jun 15 0535 2025 1450 1300 hours
Jul 01 0537 2028 1451 1302 hours
Jul 15 0547 2023 1436 1305 hours
Aug 01 0601 2010 1409 1306 hours
Aug 15 0613 1954 1341 1303 hours
Sep 01 0628 1931 1303 1259 hours
Sep 15 0641 1909 1228 1255 hours
Oct 01 0655 1843 1148 1209 hours
Oct 15 0608 1722 1114 1145 hours
Nov 01 0626 1700 1034 1143 hours
Nov 15 0641 1647 1006 1144 hours
Dec 01 0658 1639 0941 1108 hours
Dec 15 0707 1638 0931 1152 hours
True South Chart (Northern Temperate Zone) CST – 1998
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Civilian to Military Time
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MOST IMPORTANT NOTE: Now that you read & viewed ’09 never get lost navigation tricks’ – You’re Ready Anytime Anywhere. However, before you go out on your next outdoor adventure, please re-read “How To Plan Your Outdoor Adventure!”
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“Each Year 18,000 SAR Missions Are Looking For Lost People –
4,104 Are Found Too Late!”
LACK OF NAVIGATION has already killed multitudes of outdoor enthusiasts like:
- Bird Watchers
- Boaters
- Campers
- Fishermen
- Hikers
- Hunters
- Spelunkers
- Snowmobilers
- Treasure hunters
In the United States alone, there are an estimated 50,000 Search And Rescue (SAR) missions each year. And 18,000 of those SAR missions are looking for people who are lost!
And out of those 18,000 SAR missions looking for lost people, an estimated 4,104 are found too late – they were killed by Mother Nature and all She possesses because of LACK OF NAVIGATION!
In the United States alone, there are BILLIONS OF ACRES of wilderness land (Federal, State and Private). I want you to get my “Basic & Advanced Navigation Workbook And Videos!” Home-Study Navigational Course below. If you don’t, PLEASE learn how to navigate and carry & USE the map on all your outdoor adventures.
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Basic & Advanced Navigation Workbook And Videos!
THANK YOU for getting this Survival Book. I appreciate your patronage. I thought you might be interested in this Survival Product. I’m not bragging – but it’s a stone cold FACT! Here’s one of the best navigation courses anywhere on Earth – Basic & Advanced Navigation Workbook And Videos. It’s modeled after my 20-years in the US Army – namely the Special Forces (Green Berets).
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Send Me Your Final Exam And I’ll Send You A Set Of Long Range Walkie-Talkies!
If you venture outdoors (hunting, camping, hiking, fishing, rock-finding, rock climbing, Search And Rescue, military, law enforcement,…) you absolutely have to know how to read a map and navigate cross country so you’re in-control. And even if you are lost, just by knowing how to read a map, you can ‘find yourself’ instead of becoming completely lost leading to another ‘dead statistic.’
In this navigation course, I’ll start you at the very basics in map reading. Do this: take your index finger and draw a circle in the air in front of you. Go ahead and draw a circle. Good. That circle you just drew represents a hill top. A hill top on any map anywhere on the Earth.
That’s how I start teaching you how to read maps. We start at the very basics. Then we s l o w l y progress into the military grid system. You ever see those maps with bunches of squares all over the map – that’s the military grid system. We’ll start out at the baby level and work up reading 04-digit grid coordinates, 06-digit grid coordinates and then 08-digit grid coordinates. I give you spot quizzes here and throughout the entire Workbook. And all the answers are already in the book so you can check your work.
After you do all the military grid system problems, then we’ll transition into GEO Coordinates. GEO Coordinates means Geographical Coordinates of Latitude, Longitude – Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds. You’ll be able to plot and find GEO Coordinates anywhere on Earth. You’ll be one of the few people on Earth that can read and plot military grid coordinates and GEO Coordinates.
And here’s the reason you’re going to be one of the best navigators on Earth. The Workbook and the 06+ hours of Videos are synced together. As you go through page by page in the workbook, you’ll see everything in the videos. To make sure you understand everything, I give you spot quizzes after each segment, each section. And all the answers are in the Workbook so you can check your work. If you have any concerns, just review the videos.
And I provide you with everything you need to do all the navigational problems (see list below).
- Basic Map Reading DVD Video: Basic Map Reading DVD Video (02:03:19). View this video and do some of the navigational problems before you start the main course. This DVD Video comes with a color map.
- Field-Expedient Direction DVD Video: Field-Expedient Direction DVD Video (02:02:45) View this video a couple times before you start the main course. You’ll learn alternative ways to find direction anywhere on Earth when you have no compass or you’re verifying your compass heading).
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Basic & Advanced Navigation Workbook And Videos!
- Basic and Advanced Navigation Workbook: Basic and Advanced Navigation Workbook clocks-in at 300-pages with a word count of 41,152. This Workbook has hundreds of time hacks throughout the book that are synced to all the DVD Videos. It has explanations and sketches and 440 practice navigational problems and all the answers are in the Workbook so you can check your own answers.
- Basic and Advanced Navigation Workbook DVD Videos: You get multiple DVD Videos (06:30:00) that are synched to the Navigation Workbook. Basic and Advanced Navigation And all these
- 02 Full Large Tenino Maps Sheets: You’ll get 02 full large Tenino Map Sheets. Use the 1st map for all your work. Use the 1st map for all the Spot Quizzes and Practice Final Exam. Use the 2nd map for the Final Exam. Send it in to me with your answers and scratch paper so I can see you did all your work and I’ll send you a set of long-range Walkie-Talkies (keep reading).
- 02 Military Protractors: You’ll get 02 military protractors (01 back-up protractor). The military protractor is used to plot grid azimuths on your maps and to plot Grid Coordinates. Don’t worry, I’ll explain everything in the DVD videos.
- 02 Pencils, Pencil Sharpener & Gum Erasers: I told you I’ll send you everything for the Basic & Advanced Navigation Workbook And Videos. You’ll have 02 pencils, a pencil sharpener for drawing thin lines, and 02 gum erasers in case you make some mistakes.
- 02 Rulers: The transparent 12-inch ruler (01 back-up ruler) is used to draw your grid azimuth lines across your maps and it’s also used to plot your GEO Coordinates of Latitude and Longitude – Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds on the Tenino Maps or any other map. I’ll explain everything in the DVD videos.
- Basic And Advanced Navigation Practice Final Exam: You’re almost done. You’ve done plenty of navigational problems, now you’re ready for the Practice Final Exam. Included in the Navigation Workbook is a Practice Final Exam. And guess what? All the answers are in the Workbook so you can check your own work! Once you pass the Practice Final Exam, you’re 110% ready for the Final Exam.
- Basic And Advanced Navigation Final Exam: BIG CONGRATS!!! You made it this far. You already passed your Practice Final Exam, now you’re ready for the Final Exam. Hey, take a day or two off and recharge your batteries. Odds are 110% that when you pass the Practice Final Exam, you will pass the Final Exam. And to MOTIVATE you to take the Final Exam and pass it, I’ll send you a set of long-range Walkie-Talkies with back-up batteries – FREE!
Pass the Basic And Advanced Navigation Final Exam and I’ll send you:
- A set of Long Range Walkie-Talkies
- Walkie-Talkie Emergency Contact Plan
- Back-Up Batteries
The reason I want to send you a set of Walkie-Talkies is because when you’re venturing outdoors (NEVER go alone), communications will PREVENT outdoor tragedies and REMEDY outdoor tragedies. On the next page is your Order Form to get the Basic & Advanced Navigation Workbook And Videos.
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