Navigation demo - Advanced Level
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 พ.ค. 2024
- Walking safely in complex and possibly dangerous terrain involves using some advanced navigation skills. In this video I’ll follow a typical day’s walk in the hills to demonstrate some of the techniques which many advanced navigators use.
00:46 Difference between intermediate and advance navigation
01:35 Practice and experience
02:15 Precision
02:50 Contouring
03:30 Timing
04:12 Feature recognition / Terrain association
05:15 Contour interpretation
07:04 Terrain vegetation from map
07:30 Resection
09:26 8 figure grid reference to within 10m
10:05 Dangerous area planning
10:30 Complex planning (5 D’s)
10:38 Pacing
11:16 Catching features
11:40 Hard to find ground features
12:24 Loose bearings
12:44 Dangerous terrain
13:50 Height gain calculation
14:28 Walking duration calculation
14:40 Navigate by slope aspect
15:20 Error recognition
15:55 Relocation using slope aspect
17:03 Handrailing contour features
17:50 Distance plus height gain calculation
18:15 Summary
Videos mentioned
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Navigation teacher: "I'm lost again, nothing unusual about that "
Love it. 😂
I'm consistently impressed with this channel. Always good information, always interesting, always entertaining, always understandable. Thanks you.
You are a great teacher, thank you.
After watching lots of your awesome videos I thought what about my problem, Loughrigg fell terrain in the mist, dried up tarns, false paths. When last there I did a OS map swat and had issues. And then you give us this!m :) do a lot of 30-60k fell runs in the lakes solo in late rainy autumn early winter and find false paths really get me delayed(not lost ;) at times turning a 20k run into 30k. Dealing with false paths in the mist at speed is a nightmare, especially in the lakes. Thanks for your videos. I don’t ever comment but appreciate you and your content
Great video - Thank you!!! Love the split screen.
As always, excellent content and very well presented. Thank you.
brilliant video, amazing skill set you have
It's not obvious (to me at least) how many skills are being employed until you list them. Great instructional video.
Great channel! I love land navigation, or map and compass work. Orienteering as a hobby is fun! Do you have any peep compass? They are more accurate but not as useful with a map. Rain, snow, night, marshy or some horrible combination of two or even three can test all of your skill! I’m a US Army veteran. The Army thinks that’s just good training!
I really appreciate this video from the perspective that it shows the results of being able to take skills that you're practiced in and assemble them all together to address situations as they arrive with a clear head and with confidence. The outcome is actually a beautiful thing, is it not?
I thoroughly enjoyed this video, well done!
My wife and I just came back from Grasmere. We thought the rain and bad weather would put people off, but no. There were loads of them. Can't go anywhere for some solitude now. They even had their kids in a kiddie rucksack. 😂 haven't done this sort of map reading since my army days. 👍
Brilliant video and instruction, been waiting for it! Cheers
Another great video - I really enjoyed this.
Another great video
Great navigation lesson. Thank you.
Sliced grape Sandwiches. Now that is posh. Here in NZ we call this walking "tramping". It is customary to have a tin of pineapple at the end of the journey,
Pineapple in a tin. hmmmmmm not sure about that
@@TheMapReadingCompany How about a can of peaches then?
Question, if we using a compass, why not also use a simple battery powered altimeter? They have batteries that last months. Yes, it needs frequent calibration but so does navigation as this video shows.
I once walked during a snowstorm using snowshoes in the mountains along a marked snowshoe path (a post every 500 m or so). As it happens this was a fairly level path on a mountain slope, meaning I could use my altimeter to verify I was still close to the path even if the markers weren’t always visible.
I've already filmed a "how to use an Altimeter" video, just not edited it yet. Once it's edited I'll post it.
Hi, was the stream at the point you missed it underground, overgrown or dried up? , as I would be listening for sound of running water when approaching it as an intersection.
ill be practicing that .. i try to stick to paths or routes and can tell where i am but micro nav does look challenging but could be useful in bad visibility . i usually shy away from that much of a risk and stick to the path but i will try to learn on bodmin moor where i actually know where i am and dont need a map . great video tho thanks for sharing
V. informative series of videos thank you. Relative to your navigation courses: How do you ensure that an applicant's actual abilities are not mismatched with the requirements of the course, eg a novice navigator applies under the impression that they have the skills to complete an advanced course, or an intermediate level candidate incorrectly applies for a novice course. Maybe that is the aim of this series of videos! What level are you?
TIL the term “slope aspect”.
I really appreciate your knowledge and videos. However it would be very, very useful (to) that you show/position the map exactly as we see the image on the video. ie. Orient the map with the landscape. Kindest regards; many thanks Very usefull and nice videos : )
@PrepperNation_H Thanks for your answer. I now what you mean but, If we need to read/interpret correctly the landscape and be efficient in te field (as we all expect, and is teaching the youtube viewers how to better navigate) we need to orient the map. Is a basic and vital prerequisite if you want to do that, and the exercise he proposes is exactly that (that´s why we puts a photo and map image simultaneously) . He is not just taking a bearing from the map with the compass. (in this case we don´t have to orient the map, as usually believe by many).But we need to that if we need to understand the landscape to orient ourselfs and/or make navigation leg.
@PrepperNation_H Thanks for your answer. Beside what i said before in my las comment, in my opinion, unless you are making the procedures of following a bearing with a compass; or you are following a handrail with a trust catching feature; or progress for a while in big open field landscape, (in 3 cases cases you should use, at least, a catching feature) you could "neglect" keep/use the map oriented in your hand while walking and "trust" only on your memory (but we all know...memory more often than not...). Otherwise for a precise/confident/success navigation (with no unpleasant disoriented supersizes) should keep the map oriented and look at him time to time (and if necessary, thumb regularly your position in it), depending on the conspicuous land feature on the terrain and/or daylight available. And yes, is the best way to improve/practice your ability of map-terrain-map interpretation; I think!
By the way...keep map oriented all the time is the first vital rule in Orienteering, from complete beginner to master top level competitors; is a "must" !
Sorry my English, I´m from Portugal!
@PrepperNation_H Only for recreation and just walking, when i can (because i work allmost every weekend), i participate Portugal official orienterring races to; started in 2021. All books that i have focus on this very important issue.
It´s a option "method", but for sure, if you don´t orient and look at the map, you rise much higher the probability to make a pin point position or navigation mistake are you a beginner or advance top level orientier (what all of us try to avoid at any cost).
Kindest regards
Luís Avelar
I appreciate both sides but as everyone learns differently and as a complete beginner I needed to orient the map to see and understand the geography and understand what I was doing and now I can proceed to the next stage. These videos are giving me guidance and explanations on how to gradually proceed through each stage and I greatly appreciate them.
@PrepperNation_H Thanks for your answer and sorry late response but i work on weekends. I know what you mean and agreed in part. For me orient the map (with no compass, just looking at natural or man made feuture) is much more interesting and even fun (the map and terrain puzzle pieces match) truth the walking journey.
Oh! the question "What level are you? was not directed to you Wayne - but one to be directed o a potential navigation course applicant!🤐
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when lost getting unlost is advanced nav,
I am level “L” navigator. L as in lost ☹️
Oh ! An ex-army officer, obviously !
The most dangerous thing in the Army. An officer with a map.
It is better to walk into a cliff than to walk off a cliff
"Practice and experience"... who needs that? I have 5% body fat and great hair. Follow me everyone!
Practice and experience are better....😂 bonus if it comes with great hair. 5% body fat doesn't promise me anything......😂😅
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Nobody gets me.
I don’t comment often, but wanted to say thank you for your videos. They are very informative and I’ve learned a lot from them. 🫡