Wilderness Navigation Skills- Orientating a Map with a Compass

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Two ways of orientating a map with a compass. First set your compass to magnetic north (adjust for local declination), then align the edge of the compass with any north-south line on the map, or the edge of the map. Then rotate the map and compass together until the magnetic needle falls into the orienteering arrow (put Red in the Shed). The second option is to set 0 (North) at the index line and align the edge of the compass with the Magnetic North line of the Declination Diagram, then rotate the whole map and compass until the orienteering arrow falls into the orienteering arrow (put Red in the Shed).

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Thank you for the easy, simple instruction - without rambling for 5 min!

jdaniel
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This is the best you tube vid out there for orienting a map. Simple, short, direct and all you need to know.

FU-szlm
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Thank you for such clarity. I will direct my students to this. Perfect for orienting of map.

raisedbyraccoons
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I would suggest that you take a close look at the graphic showing the angle of the declination. Some of them are (or cannot be) drawn correctly for various reasons. In other words, the angle shown graphically does not correctly represent the actual written declination.

txmichaels
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We would wear our belts with the buckle to the side or back to prevent compass magnetic interference. I see her buckle rather close to her compass. Some of the crew used rope for a belt.. one junior famously kept getting lost and we saw him holding his compass inches from his cowboy belt buckle!
We used liquid dampened compasses. Bruntons were extremely accurate but took forever to settle down. Suunto MC2 and Silva Rangers with dip meters.

maxcontax
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I need to ask, when orienteering, do you orient to magnetic north or true north. BTW easy and quite good video

simonparkes
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Is useing the orienteering lines inside my compass bezel only for shooting a bearing to travel and not for orientating my map ? Or is it all the same ?

winstonalpha
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If you're going to use the second method of just using the declination diagram you should check ahead of time to make sure the declination in the area the map covers is still the same as when the map was made.

sycamore
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If you have a compass that you can adjust the declanation is it better to do it the first way or the second way? Or does it matter? If it does, why so?

epi
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You set 17 deg East Dec. on compass. Your map shows 17 deg. West Dec. ??

danjarvis
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Good videos, but it's orienting the map. Orientating isn't an actual word.

ethansaunders