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I have been trying to learn how to use a compass and this is the best instructional video I have seen. Easy to understand and how to use the compass. Great job. 😊

Excellent job. Very understandable.

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this helped my COD

Awesome video 🫶🏽

pls share a link of where to but the compass!!

Did you conquer the Appalachian Trail?

Yup! Finally, finally clicked! Nice work, thanks! Practice a lot now :)

Thank you for such a refreshing video, I forgot so much 🫣

5:10 you can slide the compass along the drawn line such that the lines inside directly overlay a grid line on the map.

Thank You...great demonstration

Great video, but I just want to point out that you don't have to zero out the compass as you are going to be aligning the orienting lines with the lines on the map anyway. Also you could set/adjust the magnetic declination on the compass and not have to worry about adding it later.

Thank you so much! I took a course and was totally baffled. I guess I am a visual learner because it FINALLY made sense watching you do the process from map to actually hiking it.

Thank you so much, God Bless

She lost almost everybody when she said "map".

Hi! Just wondering why didn't you first set the declination by adjusting the compass with a tool provided? Your method seems very easy to follow though. Another question -do I first set the declination on my compass before or after orienting the map with a compass and do I have to reset it each time when i reach a predeterminded point as your video seems to indicate? I am just learning how to use the navigation tools

I had to take the time to comment. What a very good video talk about not only the detail was excellent. The description was excellent. You demoed what you were talking about which was very clear. I mean, this was a very impressive, detailed understanding. You should definitely do a lot more content. Thanks for the great video.

Great explanation of map & compass basics. I picked a deer on the horizon as my landmark to walk to, didn't work out well! Selecting a stationary object will most likely work out better!

To me it as always been easier. You can even avoid using maps or compass, but let's say: Check north, align the map with it, check your position, find visual reference in the direction you need to go, and start walking. If you can't go straight, go from sides. Check again Check every time you need. Take reference/s, start walking. If you are not sure, keep checking until your personal inside compass is aligned ( you are sure where you are going)

Fantastic video. Very well done.

You did a fantastic job explaining this! And I love that the examples are in my backyard of NH! However, I have a question. So, I just bought a Natl Geographic topo map from EMS. It looks a lot like yours, but it has no declination information!! So after poking around, I discovered that NOAA has a magnetic declination calculator. When I plug-in the lat/long for Cranmore, which was in your example, and I lookup declination for Oct 2019 (furthest back it goes), the result is 14.87. So that's close to the 15 shown on your 2017 map. If I change the date to today, the declination is 14.44! So, have mapmakers stopped printing declination assuming that hikers will use NOAA's calculator?

Great job, you should try it in the deserts of Australia, no trees just sand dunes.

If you don't know the declanation then your going to be lost unless there is good hand rails.

first hit I tried and glad I did, thanks for the clear refresher! I'll check out your other posts now!

So did you hike it in April? Was it a good month to do it? I know the cooler winter months are better even though the higher elevations are colder.

I watched several other videos explained by men - and only once I got here did I simply and fully understand what to do. Great explanation!!!

Great video - thank you!

Seeing someone else from New Hampshire on the internet is so rare.. epic! :o

Your description for setting declination was a bit confusing. It would be nice to define why add vs subtracting. Also, when you described your initial bearing it was not clear how the change in degrees was still inline with your initial direction.

Great video ... saw the one that REI made ... was nowhere near as good as this one.

Very nice thanks. Question.. if you're bushwhacking, the chances that you can stay perfectly on the same line to your destination is slim, there could be all kinds of obstacles, you may be forced some distance off the line in some direction. Now the compass bearing is off by that much and you may not know where you are on the map to re-do the process. Perhaps it doesn't matter that much, a mountain tends to stand out, but just in general are there any techniques for re-orienting ones self once you're some distance off your original straigh line? Thanks!

I sat through a 3-hour map and compass "introduction" yesterday. This video was a million times clearer and more helpful. Thank you!

Very basic question, your examples showed moving in a straight line. What if on the map we can see that the climb or descent is very steep and so we would want to circle around a mountain? This would mean setting the bearings multippe times? And how do you know if you've arrived at the first area where you would need to change the bearing?

Very good. Easy to follow and to repeat the exercise gave me more confidence in knowing I understood correctly. Thanks

Really nice to see someone your age that knows how to do this !

518 , done your best?... orientation of the map is very first thing you do. Then play with your baseplate stuff.

Great job. I was a timber cruiser, measuring remote tracts of timber, as well as a fire fighter. 30 years. Declination is important. Sighting and waling to a landmark, such as a tree. Pacing. Very important. I had a pace of 12 paces, per chain.

i did not understand second part

Excellent, clear explanation, well done.

Nice work on this video! Top marks!

Thanks for your time making this video. I’ve searched several video but your explanation is so easy to understand! Thank you!

Many thanks for a very informative and clearly presented video. Your teaching ability is exceptional, clear and concise explanation of subject material and clear enunciation. Cheers.

A well done tutorial. I actually understood.

More map videos please. Structure them to build skills.

Not clear enough, sorry!

Not clear unless you have done this before.. Thanks for the video though.

You can actually save a step where you zero out the compass at 3:14. There doesn't seem to be a use for it as you will turn the dial as soon as you create a bearing from the map at 4:14.

Good job,,,cool vid!!!😎

how to zero out is unclear