It doesn't matter what country he is in.He's calling a draw.A re entrance which makes no sense whatsoever . I was trained military And that's how all the civilians should be trained🎉imo
@@caseykelso1 I appreciate your service and thank you for doing so. I was rejected out of high school because of juvenile scoliosis, but I made an honest attempt to serve.
How lucky are students that attend your courses! The first thing I will do when I arrive in UK, is to seek u out and join a course of yours. U r a gifted Instructor! And thank you for your entertaining and informative videos! Love the waffle sections too! Wayne Salmon Arm, BC Canada
I appreciate your transparant, and humoureous teaching style. I can now say I would pass as an intermediate. Looking forward to the advanced video. I'll probably "hit the wall " on that one. Some bad ankle terrain you had there, making me remember my time in the military. Were I living in the UK, I would certainly subscribe to one of your courses. Augmenting my knowledge in nature accompanied with some good old British humour. Keep up the good work, thnx
I love your line, "When your are walking around, don't always stare at your map & compass, take your time to look around where you are walking." Where I live in Florida, there are poisonous snakes, wild boar, bears, and Florida panthers. If you don't take time to look around where you are walking, one might stop walking permanently...!!! 😮
Comprehensive study of map reading using compass bearings and Ordnance Survey map and using a good dose of common sense.Indispensible.Knows his stuff and some. Thank you very much.
These are really excellent videos. Thank you. They make me understand what I didn't know when I was an ATC cadet and later a Met Pol cadet back in the 80s.
17:18 That's interesting. You must have a lot of fun visiting sites like these. It's enough to make me want to go on a walk. Next time I run a drill, I think I'll select somewhere interesting rather than truly random. Thanks for the inspiration. :) The idea that you can go almost anywhere there and find something interesting gives me a bit of envy. I am sure that it is true for where I live as well, but I have less written history to reference. My first thought about this place you've visited is perhaps it was for warfare. I don't know too many other reasons we humans have dug ditches prior to underground utilities. It fascinates me that this place tells a story, but we can only interpret it probabilistically. As if experience were a language of its own, and our closest equivalent is the further reasoning of others who were not then nor there. We cannot yet know or communicate with the people who created this feature, nor may we ever. We can only, as they too perhaps intended, communicate so far across time with those who come after us.
Good video, I'm seventy two, been walking the mountains since i was eleven, brought up on map and compass, give me GPS any day of the week, try that same scenario in the mist? Yes we still need to know how-to use map & compass, cos when the shit hits the fan GPS will be jammed or turned off.
I really enjoyed your video - it took me way back! The barrenness of Anglezark moor is where my Dad would take me to learn map reading and learn how to use the first baseplate compass he bought me fifty plus years ago!!!
Muy interesante, aunque los británicos jugáis con ventaja, aquí el matorral mediterráneo obliga en la mayoría de los casos no salir del camino bien marcado. Por cierto, veo con mucha pena que también hay incendios forestales en el Reino Unido. Gracias por el vídeo. Saludos desde España!
You always say “Ah, I should work these things out beforehand” but to me watching, it’s actually useful to see and think about how you’re working out things like distances, estimated travel times, etc. in the moment. Keep on procrastinating on your workings-out and show them as you go along, I say.
One day, when I become a “real” TH-camr, with a fancy studio, lots of people to edit my stuff, more than one camera, etc, then I’ll learn how to write scripts 😊 until then I’ll just stand in front of a camera, start talking and see what happens. Oh and yes maybe I should work stuff out first, but I'm not too bad a maths, so what can go wrong?.
This was a great video sir, a very valuable reference resource. I thank you for it. Think it's hard to navigate where you are?...I have similar, no contour terrain to navigate here but the landscape is very often covered in young, close forest to boot. Thanks again from Sweden.
love your videos. your method of teaching is spot on for me . always called my navigation skills very basic, was very suprised at what i deem very basic is actually classed as intermediate. you hit the nail on the head when you said this is the level of skill needed for walking in the hills, i think that’s the reason i’ve always told myself i have basic skills. the additional historical info is fastinating
I would say that difficult terrain would be in the forest where you cannot see that far. Here, even if the contours of the landscape are subtle, at least you can see them. Still, great video!!
This is a really well put together video. As you say if the terrain is tough, go slowly. I've come across very difficult, leg breaking ground, on OS green lines - I'm looking at you Lake District bogs!
Perhaps it's a bit obvious, but the proximity of a large mound of dirt (round loaf) and long ditch (Devil's Ditch) where a large amount of dirt has been dug out would seem to suggest a possible and even likely reason for the latter. There are only three reasons I can think of for moving such a large amount of dirt: 1) create a defensible posittion which seems unlikely here, 2) change the navigation of a stream which is also unlikely, and 3) construction. Not only could you make a burial mound out of it, but it could also be used to stick the walls of stone houses together (or straw or whatever they were using).
Could you please do a video and expand on “following contour lines”? This video is fabulous because it shows how to put the techniques into action. I’m still not comfortable following contour lines. Thanks 👍😎
13:20 and keeping to your dry boots strategy 😃 a good plan. 16:00 interesting, yes history holds so many learning points. 16:45 is the a #leyline ? Ley line an ancient straight pathway I was reading about the White Horse and Uffington megalithic Leylines….. think I will jump on google earth and get a compass bearing of devils ditch..just for curiosity sake. After watching this . Very interesting. 22:10 excuse 😃 works for me, I believe that.
17:01 Hi I have run in those fells fairly recently and was interested to learn more from the Historic England Research Records, you mentioned going on their website at 17:01, all I could find was Report Number: 3798 a typewriter written report from 1982 which wasn't the one you had on screen. I couldnt find the one you had, and wondered if I had missed other things to , would you be able to please give the url of the research record page on your excellent video ? Many Thanks
Hello. I have just found your videos and loving how you explain things. I have a silva compass that’s been stored for several years in a drawer with other metal objects, will this affect it or should I buy a new one. Thanks Phil
At approximately 23:00 I noticed that you were counting your paces every two steps as compared to every step. Is that just the way you do it? Or, is this something you teach and, if so, why? Thanks.
That was a very good question. Many people are familiar with step counts because all of the fitness apps use that. Counting pace is much easier than counting steps and better suited for land navigation. Check out the use of “Ranger Beads” for pace counting.🏃🏻♀️
Great video, watched nearly all of your content and really helping me get back in swing of nav. but i have a question at 24.46 you said follow bearing 326, should that not be 146, I assume i have missed something so would like to understand
Sorry to bother, but what scale of map are you using (I assume it's 1:25000)? I'm trying to recreate your map using CalTopo to reverse-engineer calculations (bearing and distance), and I've printed out 1:10000, 1:15000, and 1:25000-just trying to match the level of detail I see in your wonderful videos! Thank you!
😊 Glad you're paying attention. The 335m mark isn't a contour level it's a spot height. Contour level are always shown a right angles to the slope aspect. Spot heights are shown across the page (at right angles to the vertical / Easting lines) on a map
if i watch this demo a few more times ill be able to do all those things but i must be advanced because i use a ouija board for dead rezoning he hasn't mentioned it yet so must be in the next demo 🤪
You lost me at the corner of the forest. You took a back bearing of 184°. You then put the compass parallel to the blue lines on the map and said I'm here on the trail. How? I would have thought that you would have oriented the map to magnetic and did your 184° as a reciprocal to the corner to find your spot on the trail. Did I miss something terribly basic? I'm asking because I didn't see anyone else in the comments getting tripped up there. Thanks
Hi Frank I took a bearing from my location to the corner of the fence. The bearing was 184. So I knew that I must be on that bearing somewhere. You can imagine a line on the ground going from my location to the corner. I put the compass on the map so that the edge of the compass was touching the fence corner. I rotate the compass (keeping the edge touching the corner) until the orienting line were parallel to the eastings (the vertical blue lines) on the map. But as I knew I was standing on the track, where the edge of the compass crossed the track (which is 184 to the corner) that was my position. This video was aimed at intermediate navigators, who will know how to do this. I made a video showing a few different types of Back Bearings, including transits. In that video I go into more details on how to do them. th-cam.com/video/61uMkv19Uyw/w-d-xo.html
@@TheMapReadingCompany Thanks. I just couldn't see how you got there. I guess the rest of the folks are a little more advanced than me. No worries, back to the beginners class I go. I will get this eventually lol.
Spot height are “sometimes” the highest point, other times they’re not. They are simply the height of a point. If they are printed in orange then a computer has calculated the height. If they are printed in black then someone from the ordnance survey has visited that place with surveying equipment.
No I have never used them . I use bits of grass or whatever is laying around the terrain. See this video (I use stones in this one) th-cam.com/video/Fls-y7qeEtk/w-d-xo.html
I live in America but watch your videos frequently because they just make sense. Thank you.
Ditto
It doesn't matter what country he is in.He's calling a draw.A re entrance which makes no sense whatsoever . I was trained military And that's how all the civilians should be trained🎉imo
Which country?
@@caseykelso1 I appreciate your service and thank you for doing so. I was rejected out of high school because of juvenile scoliosis, but I made an honest attempt to serve.
How lucky are students that attend your courses! The first thing I will do when I arrive in UK, is to seek u out and join a course of yours.
U r a gifted Instructor!
And thank you for your entertaining and informative videos! Love the waffle sections too!
Wayne
Salmon Arm, BC
Canada
I appreciate your transparant, and humoureous teaching style. I can now say I would pass as an intermediate. Looking forward to the advanced video. I'll probably "hit the wall " on that one.
Some bad ankle terrain you had there, making me remember my time in the military.
Were I living in the UK, I would certainly subscribe to one of your courses. Augmenting my knowledge in nature accompanied with some good old British humour. Keep up the good work, thnx
I love your line, "When your are walking around, don't always stare at your map & compass, take your time to look around where you are walking." Where I live in Florida, there are poisonous snakes, wild boar, bears, and Florida panthers. If you don't take time to look around where you are walking, one might stop walking permanently...!!! 😮
Comprehensive study of map reading using compass bearings and Ordnance Survey map and using a good dose of common sense.Indispensible.Knows his stuff and some. Thank you very much.
These are really excellent videos. Thank you. They make me understand what I didn't know when I was an ATC cadet and later a Met Pol cadet back in the 80s.
17:18 That's interesting. You must have a lot of fun visiting sites like these. It's enough to make me want to go on a walk. Next time I run a drill, I think I'll select somewhere interesting rather than truly random. Thanks for the inspiration. :)
The idea that you can go almost anywhere there and find something interesting gives me a bit of envy. I am sure that it is true for where I live as well, but I have less written history to reference.
My first thought about this place you've visited is perhaps it was for warfare. I don't know too many other reasons we humans have dug ditches prior to underground utilities.
It fascinates me that this place tells a story, but we can only interpret it probabilistically. As if experience were a language of its own, and our closest equivalent is the further reasoning of others who were not then nor there. We cannot yet know or communicate with the people who created this feature, nor may we ever. We can only, as they too perhaps intended, communicate so far across time with those who come after us.
As always, excellent video. Thank you so much.
Hey thanks for the journey. I am considering visiting England because of you. Maybe I will see if I can book a course😂. Greetings from Germany
Good video, I'm seventy two, been walking the mountains since i was eleven, brought up on map and compass, give me GPS any day of the week, try that same scenario in the mist? Yes we still need to know how-to use map & compass, cos when the shit hits the fan GPS will be jammed or turned off.
I really enjoyed your video - it took me way back! The barrenness of Anglezark moor is where my Dad would take me to learn map reading and learn how to use the first baseplate compass he bought me fifty plus years ago!!!
Muy interesante, aunque los británicos jugáis con ventaja, aquí el matorral mediterráneo obliga en la mayoría de los casos no salir del camino bien marcado.
Por cierto, veo con mucha pena que también hay incendios forestales en el Reino Unido.
Gracias por el vídeo. Saludos desde España!
You always say “Ah, I should work these things out beforehand” but to me watching, it’s actually useful to see and think about how you’re working out things like distances, estimated travel times, etc. in the moment. Keep on procrastinating on your workings-out and show them as you go along, I say.
One day, when I become a “real” TH-camr, with a fancy studio, lots of people to edit my stuff, more than one camera, etc, then I’ll learn how to write scripts 😊 until then I’ll just stand in front of a camera, start talking and see what happens. Oh and yes maybe I should work stuff out first, but I'm not too bad a maths, so what can go wrong?.
Great breakdown and explanation of your route navigation. Thank you.
This was a great video sir, a very valuable reference resource. I thank you for it.
Think it's hard to navigate where you are?...I have similar, no contour terrain to navigate here but the landscape is very often covered in young, close forest to boot. Thanks again from Sweden.
love your videos. your method of teaching is spot on for me . always called my navigation skills very basic, was very suprised at what i deem very basic is actually classed as intermediate. you hit the nail on the head when you said this is the level of skill needed for walking in the hills, i think that’s the reason i’ve always told myself i have basic skills. the additional historical info is fastinating
I would say that difficult terrain would be in the forest where you cannot see that far. Here, even if the contours of the landscape are subtle, at least you can see them. Still, great video!!
liked the real time navigation example. thanks for sharing
Your videos are addictive 👍
This is a really well put together video. As you say if the terrain is tough, go slowly. I've come across very difficult, leg breaking ground, on OS green lines - I'm looking at you Lake District bogs!
Another awesome video. As usual. Thanks for posting.
Perhaps it's a bit obvious, but the proximity of a large mound of dirt (round loaf) and long ditch (Devil's Ditch) where a large amount of dirt has been dug out would seem to suggest a possible and even likely reason for the latter. There are only three reasons I can think of for moving such a large amount of dirt: 1) create a defensible posittion which seems unlikely here, 2) change the navigation of a stream which is also unlikely, and 3) construction. Not only could you make a burial mound out of it, but it could also be used to stick the walls of stone houses together (or straw or whatever they were using).
How about a ditch to drag something e.g boat to the burial mound?
Could you please do a video and expand on “following contour lines”?
This video is fabulous because it shows how to put the techniques into action. I’m still not comfortable following contour lines.
Thanks 👍😎
Just for you: th-cam.com/video/DxnnDmnzsT8/w-d-xo.html
13:20 and keeping to your dry boots strategy 😃 a good plan. 16:00 interesting, yes history holds so many learning points. 16:45 is the a #leyline ? Ley line an ancient straight pathway I was reading about the White Horse and Uffington megalithic Leylines….. think I will jump on google earth and get a compass bearing of devils ditch..just for curiosity sake. After watching this . Very interesting. 22:10 excuse 😃 works for me, I believe that.
You want babies heads (tufts) go and try the Elan Valley! Great video mate 👍
Yeh, the moors up above Claerwen are a nightmare to walk across. Especially in the wild weather you get up there most of the time!
17:01 Hi I have run in those fells fairly recently and was interested to learn more from the Historic England Research Records, you mentioned going on their website at 17:01, all I could find was Report Number: 3798 a typewriter written report from 1982 which wasn't the one you had on screen. I couldnt find the one you had, and wondered if I had missed other things to , would you be able to please give the url of the research record page on your excellent video ? Many Thanks
Hello. I have just found your videos and loving how you explain things. I have a silva compass that’s been stored for several years in a drawer with other metal objects, will this affect it or should I buy a new one. Thanks Phil
As long as the magnetic needle still points north it should be ok
@ Thanks. I’m just watching your video regarding calibrating a compass 👍👍
At approximately 23:00 I noticed that you were counting your paces every two steps as compared to every step. Is that just the way you do it? Or, is this something you teach and, if so, why? Thanks.
It's normal to count every double step - one pace..
I made a video about this.
th-cam.com/video/Fls-y7qeEtk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=6Xw-h9Z0VFRG8CEk
@@TheMapReadingCompany Thanks. I only recently found your channel and have not had time to go back and watch your prior videos.
@@TheMapReadingCompany Okay, thanks. I thought 1.5 meters per step sounded wrong.
That was a very good question. Many people are familiar with step counts because all of the fitness apps use that. Counting pace is much easier than counting steps and better suited for land navigation. Check out the use of “Ranger Beads” for pace counting.🏃🏻♀️
Wonder if the Ditch was a ceremonial route to do with the burial mound?
If only the hills could talk
Thanks
Great video, watched nearly all of your content and really helping me get back in swing of nav. but i have a question at 24.46 you said follow bearing 326, should that not be 146, I assume i have missed something so would like to understand
Oh yeah - I made a mistake. You're right I should have said 146. Sorry for that.
@@TheMapReadingCompany😀👍
Keeping your boots dry is not a bad strategy !
Sorry to bother, but what scale of map are you using (I assume it's 1:25000)? I'm trying to recreate your map using CalTopo to reverse-engineer calculations (bearing and distance), and I've printed out 1:10000, 1:15000, and 1:25000-just trying to match the level of detail I see in your wonderful videos! Thank you!
it's 1:25,000 OS Explorer 287
shop.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/map-of-west-pennine-moors/
Is the 335 contour label E of Round Loaf incorrectly located? Shouldn’t that line be 330 and 335 should be the next one above?
😊 Glad you're paying attention.
The 335m mark isn't a contour level it's a spot height.
Contour level are always shown a right angles to the slope aspect. Spot heights are shown across the page (at right angles to the vertical / Easting lines) on a map
Could the spoil from the ditch be round loaf?
if i watch this demo a few more times ill be able to do all those things but i must be advanced because i use a ouija board for dead rezoning he hasn't mentioned it yet so must be in the next demo 🤪
You lost me at the corner of the forest. You took a back bearing of 184°. You then put the compass parallel to the blue lines on the map and said I'm here on the trail. How?
I would have thought that you would have oriented the map to magnetic and did your 184° as a reciprocal to the corner to find your spot on the trail.
Did I miss something terribly basic?
I'm asking because I didn't see anyone else in the comments getting tripped up there.
Thanks
Hi Frank
I took a bearing from my location to the corner of the fence. The bearing was 184. So I knew that I must be on that bearing somewhere. You can imagine a line on the ground going from my location to the corner.
I put the compass on the map so that the edge of the compass was touching the fence corner.
I rotate the compass (keeping the edge touching the corner) until the orienting line were parallel to the eastings (the vertical blue lines) on the map.
But as I knew I was standing on the track, where the edge of the compass crossed the track (which is 184 to the corner) that was my position.
This video was aimed at intermediate navigators, who will know how to do this.
I made a video showing a few different types of Back Bearings, including transits. In that video I go into more details on how to do them. th-cam.com/video/61uMkv19Uyw/w-d-xo.html
@@TheMapReadingCompany Thanks. I just couldn't see how you got there. I guess the rest of the folks are a little more advanced than me. No worries, back to the beginners class I go.
I will get this eventually lol.
Would spot 347 be the highest bit of ground around you ?
Spot height are “sometimes” the highest point, other times they’re not. They are simply the height of a point.
If they are printed in orange then a computer has calculated the height. If they are printed in black then someone from the ordnance survey has visited that place with surveying equipment.
@@TheMapReadingCompany Wow more knowledge thanks ..black and orange.. enjoy your style of presentation
Maybe they dug the dirt out of the Devils ditch to make the Round Loaf?
Do you or have you ever utilized pace beads?
No I have never used them . I use bits of grass or whatever is laying around the terrain.
See this video (I use stones in this one) th-cam.com/video/Fls-y7qeEtk/w-d-xo.html
I would say that difficult terrain would take twice the normal speed of 4 km/h.
I’d wager Devil’s Ditch was dug to capture wild game that was funneled into it. It’s a Native American tactic.
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Please NEVER stop the ‘waffle.’
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Dude has different gear in every video. 😅