Hiker who died on Appalachian Trail didn’t know how to use compass The revelation about Geraldine Largay, contained in a report by the Maine Warden Service, was 'a recipe for disaster,' a ...

Where a basic trail or road map will just have lines indicating the position of trails or roads — often with an oversimplified representation of their shapes and scale, think the New York Subway ...

The compass dictates your direction or heading, and a map shows you where you are on that heading by giving you points of reference. You use the two together to determine where you are, where you ...

Tricks of the Trail; Orient Your Map: You can eliminate the need to correct for declination if you use your compass to orient the map each time. As long as the map is oriented with respect to magnetic ...

Using a map and compass is one of the most reliable foundational skills of the wilderness. GPS units sometimes fail—you owe it to yourself to know how to use a trusty compass Skip to content ...

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Refer to your map, compass, and any notes or photos you’ve made. If you can, retrace your steps back to your last known ...

A Canadian search-and-rescue group said it had conducted two missions recently after hikers “may have sought to follow” a nonexistent trail on Google Maps.

The proposal to create a multi-use trail connecting Augusta to Brunswick is at a critical juncture. You may have heard about the Merrymeeting Trail, a 26-mile multi-use trail that would join the ...