Class from 8:00am until about 5:40pm. The class meets in Cilker 116.

We will be outside on campus for several hours. Wear clothing appropriate for the day's weather and "off sidewalk" travel.

Topics

• Compasses
• Using bearing and distance to navigate
• North references
• Plotting bearings
• Location by intersecting bearings
• Triangulation exercise

Handouts

• Compass Bearing Exercise - CompassBearingPracticeCourse.pdf
• 100m Pace Card - 100mPacingCard.pdf
• North Reference Sheet - NorthReferenceSheet.pdf Order printed copies
• Find the Smoke - FindTheSmoke.pdf
  • and the Answers - FindTheSmokeAnswer.pdf
• Siera Azul Map - sierra_azul_map2.pdf
• Elevation Profile Exercise - TerainProfileEx.pdf

Slides

Weekend 1 - Sunday

More Resources

• North Reference Tutorials at MapTools.com
• Magnetic Declination Calculator

Good Reads

• Compass - A Story of Exploration and Innovation, Alan Gurney - Amazon
• The Riddle of the Compass, Amird Aczel - Amazon