Easy explanation for someone who is learning to get out there off trail
Be wise enough to walk away from the nonsense around you!
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rhjanes wrote:
One thing we teach in orienteering (hardly anyone uses a mirror compass) is that you sight to the object on the bearing (off the map), then lower the compass and map and just walk to the object you sighted to. Raise up the map and compass, check the bearing, look around at land features to see if it still seems correct, sight to the farthest object you can see on the bearing. Note that object. Lower it all and hike to that object. Repeat.
AnotherKevin wrote:
Yeah, hardly anyone uses a mirror compass in the sport of orienteering, but a lot of the time that's all about terrain awareness and a thumb compass, plus an eye for collecting features, is really what you need. Nevertheless, lots of us bushwhackos use mirror sights. Since I've worn bifocals for about twenty years now, I've acquired a distaste for lensatics, even though that's what the teaching materials I use assume. I just add a little bit of material on reading a mirror sight.rhjanes wrote:
One thing we teach in orienteering (hardly anyone uses a mirror compass) is that you sight to the object on the bearing (off the map), then lower the compass and map and just walk to the object you sighted to. Raise up the map and compass, check the bearing, look around at land features to see if it still seems correct, sight to the farthest object you can see on the bearing. Note that object. Lower it all and hike to that object. Repeat.
You're absolutely right to 'sight an object in the intermediate distance and walk up to it.' Don't pick something so far away that you'll lose sight of it while trying to walk up to it.
In our dense Eastern woods, sometimes the best you can do is to aim WAAAAY off on a handrail and follow the needle, even though that's sure to make you wander some. You just don't get the sight lines when you're pushing through this stuff.
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LIhikers wrote:
WOO, that's a good, simple explanation, thanks for posting it
My problem is that my eyes aren't good enough to read those tiny marks in that small mirror.
meat wrote:
You look lost
AnotherKevin wrote:
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LIhikers wrote:
Yea, I know, but it bothers me that I can't read it.
Guess I'm not liking getting old
JimBlue wrote:
The flash of light is a warning sign of more problems. Get to an opthamologist. You can lose your eyesight. That is a warning sign my ophthalmologist gave me to watch out for.
JimBlue wrote:
Odd as my flashes stopped when the retina detached and never appeared again after the retina was put back.
LIhikers wrote:
Yea, I know, but it bothers me that I can't read it.
Guess I'm not liking getting old
Dan76 wrote:
Anyone whom continues to wrench on not only helicopters but VW buses is not getting older but is staying young. And let's not forget completing lengthy section hikes in less than ideal weather conditions.LIhikers wrote:
Yea, I know, but it bothers me that I can't read it.
Guess I'm not liking getting old