Essential Skills: Setting the Map

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 UKH Articles 10 May 2016
Setting the map using clearly visible features, 4 kbIf you can set a map then navigating becomes much easier, because you don't have to rotate all the information in your head. The folks at Mountain Training explain this basic but very useful skill.

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 Michael Hood 11 May 2016
In reply to UKH Articles:

What's the current correction for magnetic north - from looking at older maps it must be down to about 1% by now in which case it's currently irrelevant.

However, does this mean that a generation of navigators are going to grow up without thinking about the correction and when it eventually increases to a significant figure again they will get caught out. Or will map & compass be completely irrelevant by then due to implanted locator chips etc.

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