This conveniently sized guide is an invaluable point of reference for all walkers. Written by an author with a wealth of experience teaching navigation skills, it provides a clear and comprehensive guide to the key techniques - giving you the confidence to navigate successfully with map and compass and to plan and execute your own routes. All topics are clearly referenced and easy to find. Chapters cover scales and grids, map symbols and contours, compasses, bearings, navigation on the hill, route planning and night and bad weather navigation. This new edition also incorporates new content on walking with a GPS device, with notes on how technology can complement map and compass. The text is illustrated with explanatory photos and diagrams as well as extracts from real maps and map keys, and - since the best way to learn is through experience - throughout the guide, practical exercises are suggested to help you practise and develop your skills. Perfect both for novices seeking an introduction to navigation and also those wishing to brush up on old skills, this book is an indispensable companion to mastering the essential techniques. These valuable skills will enhance not only your safety but also your enjoyment of the outdoors.

A comprehensive guide to navigation with a map and compass providing training on how to read a map and how to use a compass as well as more advanced techniques for navigating in all conditions. Also features information on GPS and digital mapping methods. This guidebook will help readers make the most of their outdoor experiences by learning how to use a map and compass to navigate more confidently. The navigation training in this book will give readers the freedom to get away from the crowds, invent their own routes and discover new areas, even where the GPS fails. Chapters cover how to read a map, understanding grid references, contours and features on a map; planning walks carefully; taking bearings, walking with a compass; timing, pacing and other techniques; what to do when you get lost and navigating in poor visibility or night navigation; navigating abroad and GPS and other digital technology. Written by an experienced navigation trainer, this helpful training guide is packed with useful practical exercises and examples.

This wonderfully appealing and practical gift book features step-by-step instructions on how to tie over 50 knots and when and where to use them. The beautiful two colour illustrations and clear instructions quickly teach you how to tie classic knots, such as the Reef Knot and Bowline, through to more specialist knots such as the Alpine Butterfly and the Taut Line Hitch. The knots are clearly organised for safe application across a range of activities including sailing, climbing, fishing, camping or for decoration. The useful introduction and reference section tells you all you need to know about knot work; including an explanation of the key terms, recommended techniques and a complexity rating for tying each knot. So, if you want to make a rope ladder with your kids, sail the oceans, be safe climbing in the mountains or make a True Lovers knot then this book has every knot you should know how to tie, plus many more. The perfect gift for craftsmen and women alike and the adventurer in all of us. Featuring an exclusive foreword from Tim Treloar of TT Adventures, co-presenter of the BAFTA-winning Survival School with Bear Grylls.

Explore and experience nature with your kids with these 30 fun and educational family activities dedicated to spending more time outside. Less screen, more green! In the world of smartphones, tablets, and online learning, the need for children to engage with nature has never been more evident. Outdoor activities and projects inspire exploration, creativity, curiosity, learning, and a sense of wonder. Interacting with nature also fosters a healthy love and respect for the outdoors. The Family Guide to Outdoor Adventures features fun and engaging hands-on nature, camping, and bushcraft projects that get you and your children outside having more fun, strengthening your bond, and creating memories that will last a lifetime. Written by expert survival instructor Creek Stewart, each project is designed to get parents and their kids outside and teach them about nature and the great outdoors. From casting animal tracks and dyeing t-shirts with walnuts to building a debris hut and catching minnows with a spider web your family with get your hands dirty, learn some cool nature facts, and complete some awesome projects with your family. Explore, create, laugh, love, and experience the great outdoors together with The Family Guide to Outdoor Adventures.

Crowood Sports Guides provide sound, practical advice that will make you a better sportsperson, whether you are learning the basic skills, discovering more advanced techniques or reviewing the fundamentals of your sport. Contents include: information boxes containing tips and advice aimed at all levels of ability; how to get started and take part in your first event; the skills and techniques needed by those just beginning orienteering and by more advanced competitors; over 200 maps and photographs in full colour depicting techniques, the terrain, top runners and all aspects of this exhilarating and exciting adventure sport. Finally, practical information about training is given, including mental training techniques and how to plan a periodized training programme.

Richly illustrated and information-packed tools for the novice or handy reference for the veteran, BASIC ILLUSTRATED books distill years of knowledge into affordable and visual guides. Whether you're planning a trip or thumbing for facts in the field, the BASIC ILLUSTRATED series shows you what you need to know.

Discover how to:

• Choose and use the right type of compass

• Use a map and compass in concert with a GPS receiver
• Read and understand contour lines and other map features
• Plot a course and find your way through the wilderness
• Use the stars to navigate rivers, streams, and trails at night
• Find and order the maps you need
  

Discover more of the great outdoors with Navigation Skills for Walkers and Pathfinder (R) Guides. Build confidence and competence in reading maps: using grid references, contour interpretation and visualising terrain. Learn how to use a compass, with map and compass navigation: taking a bearing, magnetic variation and `aiming off'. Make the most of your GPS device: using the information it provides, understanding the limitations of GPS, and geocaching. Gain familiarity with digital mapping: introducing OS Maps, its app and online versions ideal for creating, following and reviewing your own walks.

A misread map, a sudden storm, a forgotten headlamp - and suddenly a leisurely hike can become a treacherous endeavour. In the past decade, cheap but sophisticated navigation devices and mobile phones have led to shocking levels of overconfidence on the trail. On top of this worrisome trend, the increasing popularity of mountain terrain has led those seeking solitude - or adrenaline - into increasingly remote or edgy forays. Sandy Stott, the "Accidents" editor at the journal of the Appalachian Mountain Club, delivers both a history and a celebration of the search-and-rescue workers who save countless lives in the White Mountains - along with a plea for us not to take their steadfastness and bravery for granted. Filled with tales of astonishing courage and sobering tragedy, Critical Hours will appeal to outdoor enthusiasts and armchair adventurers alike.

"Off-Road Running" explains the basics of training so that every runner can design a program unique to them. Practical explanations of nutrition and physiology complement advice on every aspect of training, from taking a compass bearing to preparing for a race. Topics covered include trail running, cross country, fell running, mountain running, orienteering, and mountain marathons.

This is the essential guide to challenging and adventurous trips in all kinds of terrain for the intrepid explorer and competition walker. It gives easy-to-follow advice on practical navigation skills: how to use a map and compass correctly; orientation using the sun, moon and stars; and understanding natural navigational signs in the landscape. It explains how to read weather patterns and interpret cloud formations to ensure your safety in remote and exposed places. It is illustrated with over 200 full-colour photographs, including simple-to-grasp step-by-step instructions for key skills and techniques. This practical handbook provides a handy reference for anyone wishing to explore the back country. Whether you are preparing for a day's walking or mountain biking, a camping weekend, a trek on horseback, a hike through the jungle, or a kayaking tour lasting several weeks, this highly illustrated guide will show you all you need to know. With the emphasis on teaching the fundamentals of hiking and travelling with transport and animals, and of orienteering your way along the route, it makes essential reading before setting off. Packed with hundreds of helpful hints this book is essential reading for anyone planning a trip in the wilderness.

Engaging the mind and toning the body, orienteering offers a mind-body workout that builds confidence, problem-solving skills, and an appreciation for the natural environment. Written in an engaging manner, "Discovering Orienteering: Skills, Techniques, and Activities" offers a systematic approach to learning, teaching, and coaching orienteering. "Discovering Orienteering" presents the basic skills and techniques of the sport for beginners. It also functions as a review for advanced orienteers, featuring stories of orienteering experiences to illustrate the fun, challenge, and adventure of the sport.

An excellent resource for physical educators, recreation and youth leaders, and orienteering coaches, "Discovering Orienteering" distills the sport into teachable components relating to various academic disciplines, provides an array of learning activities, and includes an introduction to physical training and activities for coaching beginning to intermediate orienteers. Guidelines take eager beginners beyond the basics and prepare them to participate in orienteering events. More than 60 ready-to-use activities assist educators in applying the benefits of orienteering across the curriculum.

Developed in conjunction with Orienteering USA (OUSA), "Discovering Orienteering" addresses the methods, techniques, and types of orienteering commonly found throughout the United States and Canada. Authors Charles Ferguson and Robert Turbyfill are experienced orienteers with expertise as trainers and elite competitors. Ferguson and Turbyfill also have backgrounds in education with a variety of teaching experiences, lending to the book's utility as a resource for introducing orienteering in a physical education or youth recreation setting.

"Discovering Orienteering" begins by explaining the basics of orienteering, including a brief history of the sport followed by information on fitness, nutrition, safety, and tools and equipment. After this introduction, readers learn orienteering skills, techniques, and processes using the OUSA's systematic teaching and coaching methodology.

Next, readers learn how to apply these skills, techniques, and processes to an event situation. Orienteering ethics and rules are discussed, including the ethical use of special equipment. Information is also included to help readers prepare for and compete in an orienteering event.

Activities in the appendix are presented in a concise lesson plan format indicating the skills or techniques covered in the activity, level of expertise required, and equipment needed.

"Discovering Orienteering: Skills, Techniques, and Activities" offers an excellent introduction to the sport for beginniners and a comprehensive resource for educators, youth leaders, and coaches. With its systematic approach, " Discovering Orienteering" can help readers chart a course to fun and adventure in the great outdoors.

THE ULTIMATE SURVIVAL GUIDE for anyone who thinks they'd survive the world's most hostile environments - or at least imagine they could do. ----------------------------- First issued to airmen in the 1950s, the Air Ministry's Sea Survival guide includes original and authentic emergency advice to crew operating over the ocean. With original illustrations and text, these survival guides provide an insight to military survival techniques from a by-gone era. Packed with original line drawings and instruction in: - The best faces to pull to prevent frostbite and when you can expect bits of you to 'fall off', should you fail - How to build a structurally sound igloo - How to fashion a mask to prevent snowblindness Focussing on the harshest of situations one can find oneself in, Arctic Survival is one of four reprints of The Air Ministry's emergency survival pamphlets. Others include: Jungle Survival Desert Survival Arctic Survival

Immensely useful, highly instructive manual for would-be explorers, hikers, bikers, scouts, sailors, survivalists--anyone who enjoys exploring the outdoors. Today's adventurers will learn how to find their way in the wilderness, in towns, in the desert, in snow-covered areas--even on the ocean--by observing birds, animals, weather patterns, vegetation, shifting sands, patterns of snow fields, and the positions of the sun, moon and stars. Clearly, precisely and graphically explained by one of the world's great navigators.