Practice Map and Compass skills with Cardinal Points’ Free Desktop App
Learning how to use a map and compass is an invaluable skill. Sometimes different compass techniques can be confusing and easy to mix up in your head. For instance when taking a magnetic barring do you line the orienting arrow with the magnetic needle or with the grid lines on the map? When trying to follow a bearing in fog do you align the orienting arrow with the grid lines or is it the magnetic needle. In both cases it
Ski Exercise
After hitting the slopes this last week I realized just how out of shape my legs are. By the end of the first day my legs felt like noodles. And it doesn’t help that Taos is close to 80% moguls most of the time. If I am going to survive my March ski trip I am going to have to build up my quadriceps among other muscles in my legs. I have been looking around for some good ski
Family Push-Pin Map
Not long after my oldest was born we set a family goal. Before she graduates from high school we want to have visited every state in the US. So far we have made it to 10 states (I think) which is a little more than one state per year. Now that she is 8 we only have about 10 years left and 40 more states. I think we need to speed it up a bit.Maybe our problem is we can’t
When Technology Tries To Kill You
Not long ago I read about a Nevada couple who selected “Shortest Route” on their GPS and unknowingly followed it down an unforgiving forest service road. Unfortunately the couple became stuck and/or lost in the forest. Luckily the couple had prepared a car survival kit and brought enough food and water to last them the tree days they spent trapped in the woods.This story stuck in my mind as my wife and I recently drove through the remote forest roads