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#020 - Field Skills: Navigation | Map, Compass & When the Phone Dies
At some point on a ridgeline in the cloud, or in dense forest where the terrain stopped matching your memory of the map twenty minutes ago, the phone in your pocket becomes a small dark powerless rectangle. This episode is about navigating the way people did for most of history — by what you can see and what you can read on paper.
Host Shawn Spainhour, a former Army officer who spent years navigating with topo maps and a lensatic compass, walks through the whole system. How to read contour lines and see the landscape in them before you leave the trailhead, and why identifying your bailout…
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