Compass 101 - How to Use a Baseplate Compass
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- Have you ever been lost? Even in the city? Every path is unfamiliar... Well have no fear, in the next three minutes you will learn how a compass can save the day.
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11 years later and you're still helping people find out how exactly to use a compass. Because of the other videos i never thought it would've actually been this easy to understand but thanks to your clear and straight-to-the-point explanation i fully understand now. Thank you so much.
I have watched several compass reading tutorial, and yours is the most easiest way to understand it. thanks
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Definitely the easiest to understand out of all the other videos I’ve watched on TH-cam.
By far the most direct explanation I have come across after hours of watching these tutorials. Good teaching.
Best 3 minute tutorial on basic use of a compass! Thanks again!
We're happy to help :)
Most helpful video on how to use a compass we've seen (for complete newbies).
Great video - short, simple and clear. Well done! Thank you!
Thank you for the wonderful response and for your suggestions! We are currently working on a follow up video that will go into more depth about some of these concepts. -Naturalist Michelle
It's been kinda 7 yrs
As others said, I have watched a few, and it just didn't click, this one finally made it all make sense, thank you!
I do quite a bit of geological tracking, and I have to use my compass all the time. This was a very good tutorial of how to face the direction you want/need to go, probably the most important use of a compass in survival situations. Too many of these vids are way too complicated for beginners, like trying to show how to run in parallel, etc. but they never just show you how to go “that way” and what “that way “ is. Great content, thank you!!
By far the best tutorial for teaching kids how to use a compass. Just the right amount of info presented clearly and concisely. Thank you!
You are my very favorite teacher...thank you...I looked at lots of them...teach me something else!! Great Job!
I like this person and her explanation is very clear like water
Fantastic! To the point, easy to understand and remember - thank you! Too many videos out there breaking it down into baby steps, when all you want is some useful information. Please make more!!!!!! Our Scouts love them :)
You should be also a teacher, you make things easy
Been so many years since I needed to use a compass so I just needed a quick refresher. This was perfect. Thank you
This is by far the best simple compass tutorial video that I have found for sending to our scouts for review!
Thank you for learing me how to use a compass. Real good instruction, good and quick.
KristinaMonte ....now someone just needs to learn you how to spell correctly.
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Oh gosh, I bet you are no longer with the service but THANK YOU! By far the easiest to follow basics I have ever come across.
All the other tutorials make it sound so confusing! This is probably the best one.
My teacher sent me here and this is the second video that I’ve watched and this one by far is the best out of the two
So helpful thank you so much
EXCELLENT.
BRILLIANT.
EASY to understand.
Thank you.
Well Done.
The best tutorial on the compass-Carolyn, I hope that you are running MRCA by now.
That was a pleasure to watch, you delivered a valuable lesson in an easy to understand way. Perfect, thank you.
Brilliant. just what beginners need, some slow, easy, and concise instruction.
It took me a while scrolling through a million other vids before I found this. I'm not saying the other vids were rubbish just that this presentation was awesome.
Now to check and see what else is on this site.
You are so cute. I could watch you give compass instruction all day long.
I have to teach a group of girls how to use a compass tomorrow and this greatly helped! All the other compass tutorials I watched were very confusing but this video made it easy to understand
very clearly explained with out any confusion,thanks carolyn
Great explanation- easy to follow and clear. Best of all- no music or long intro! Should be titled- how to use a compass in ~3 minutes!
Wow the light just turned on for me!!!
Great job! This video is by far the easiest to understand.
Thank you for a great video. I watched others but yours was the most easy to understand. Thank you!
Excellent tuition. Short, simple and straight to the point. A shame all the others just wasted so much time showing how to use a compass
Most simple and explicit tutorial. Thank you!
Great Video! Short and straight to the point. I actually feel like I understand how to use a compass now.
Wow...I'm glad you broke that down and made it simple. I was lost on some of the other videos. Thanks
Thanks for the explanation! Im new to hiking and found this very helpful!
I agree with JanesvillePE. Great Video. I actually taught my 7 year old to use a compass using this format. Simple, easy to remember and it works. Great Job!!
Great to hear! Thank you for sharing!
Good starting point for beginners. She has a unique presentation voice. I checked the YT site and there are no follow up videos on compass use. Too bad.
I watched a hundred compass vids yours I got thank you
Thank G, a video that speaks my language...got it... ready for the next level. Thank You
Very clear and to the point..thank you so much!
Best compass tutorial on youtube
well explained thank you. 10 year old video too!
Amazing God bless you
super helpful, thank you so much for making this tutorial :)
awesome and easy to understand , thank you !!!!
Way more helpful than any other tutorial I’ve seen
Thank you, this tutorial was simple yet very acurate
Thank you! I have watched dozens of tutorial trying to find the right one to use with children. All the others were either far too simplistic or far too complicated. This one strikes just the right balance.
thank you ! you're a good teacher
clear and easy to understand, thanks
Yours is soo easy to understand
Thanks so much!
very well explained, thank you!
Thank You Carolyn
Great explanation well done thank you
Love both longitude, latitude and the four direction north, south, east and west.
thanks, im doing my dofe bronze this year and i have no idea if we need to have a compass or not.
Great video thanks for shareing vary useful.....
I never bother with the compass as my gut instinct has always brought me to my destination and back. I'm happy to know that I now know how to use a compass! 😎
Wow thank you
Ok, Right Said Fred, now which direction?
Direct clear thank you
Short, sweet and on point. How tutorials should always be
Yes, but on my dial, the N is between 02 and 62 and I don't get the 62 division dial. At the base of the disk, there is an other dail with 360"" division what is hard to see from looking down at it...?
Great presenter
Very helpful... Thanks!
Yes I have to agree this one was the most easiest to understand. the other ones , just kept confusing me
thank you ...
Very articulate and to the point. But, the plate in my head and bolts in my right knee and left elbow make it difficult to get a bearing.
What a great post.
She looks so young, but clearly knows her stuff and is able to clearly explain things. Great video! Thank you.
great video thank you
Great job
Brief & concise. Thank you.
Awesome tutorial. Now to teach my troop how to use a compass. Thanks!
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This was the most simple video compared to others to take a bearing thanks to the video zooming in on the compass so you can see what's going on etc.
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thank you, very useful
I think all hikers should be ask to take a compass and for sure know how to use it. That little piece of metal and plastic can be a life saver when a person looses the trail markers.
THANKS
Does the metal on your ring affect the compass you are holding?
awesome
Terrific. Thanks.
now i know how to use a compass after scrolling several videos
Question so once W is in DOG and red Fred is in the shed, do you follow Fred in shed or do you follow w in the DOG
Thank you very much!
You're welcome, happy to help!
Because of the coming micronova, declination is moving much farther, and much faster and so declination information is likely incorrect but there is still a way to recalibrate magnetic declination using the shadow of sticks recording the path of the sun---rotation of the earth has not yet changed. First stick will show East. Mark it with a sharp stick pushed in. After a few minutes you can mark sun shadow travel where the shadow has moved - Push another stick in to mark West. Lay a straight stick from the E mark to the W mark. Geographic north or True North is 90 degrees from the E-W line. With your compass pointing toward True North, note how far off your compass is now. That is your true up-to-date declination. My up-to-date declination is 30 degrees, 15 degrees off from the official declination for my area. More on micronova in my 2nd book, Surviving the Micronova: This Train Is on the Tracks is now available
wow really helpful thx
Was transitioning to this from a military lensatic compass hard for anyone else? Does it seem backwards to you? Any thoughts on which is better?
What about magnetic variation? Do you adjust clockwise or anti clockwise?
Oh my gosh - perfectly explained for my confused brain thankyou!
Easy instructions! 🥰
Hello people, cool video
Nice one
very informative
Perfect.. now just to be able to know the direction you want to go is West to begin with!
Thanks 💙
No discussion of declination?
THANK YOU
Tysm for this