Brand: Mountaineers Books Wilderness Navigation - Softcover

Burns, Bob

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333 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898866294 ISBN 13: 9780898866292

Publisher: Mountaineers Books, 1999

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*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.

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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.

Review:

An ideal book for those who aspire to travel with precision in the backcountry. -- Lewiston Morning Tribune

An informative book on how to walk in the woods. -- Reel News

Even if you've never held a compass or GPS, you'll have an idea of how they work. -- Sweat magazine

If you're planning a wilderness excursion, swallow your pride and pick up Wilderness Navigation. -- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Required reading for anyone who spends time in the outdoors with a map and compass. -- St. Paul Pioneer Press

[E]ssentials for using a map and a compass as well as easy and practical techniques for using global positioning devices. --Willoughby (OH) News-Herald

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