Land Nav

All right, this is going to be my navigation with the map and compass. We're obviously out in the bush up north. And Ken just taught me a little bit about it. So I'm going to, we're at Louise Lake, about right there. And I'm going to try to get to the power lines here. It's about a kilometer. So first off, I've got to orientate my compass. All right, so now I've got to walk due south. I put Snoopy in the doghouse, and I'm walking that-a-way. Alright, I'm walking up a big contour line. After I get up this hump, I'll take another bearing and show you guys how I do that. Okay, I had a little clearing, so snooping the dog house and then line it up. We go dead this way. We come to this clearing. I've been walking through stuff like that, and I came to this clearing. It's nice and sunny, so I'm going to take a bearing here and find out which way I need to go. Well, I know it's this way, but I don't know exactly. you probably can't see that in the camera but i gotta go right that way i'm gonna aim for ah that tree pretty thick back here oh it's a nice another nice little opening here some beautiful woods are we going that way this is an awesome place here it's uh all pine and moss look how thick the moss is my foot almost sinks in it is really really nice very glad i'm doing this. Alright, I found the power lines. That's obviously them right there. They are quite a ways off still, but it looks like I'm coming to a cliff here. And if that's the case, I'm not going to them. I'm not going down a cliff. But we'll see. Alright, so it's a bunch of boulders like this. Pretty steep. Let me see if I can... It's not the biggest deal in the world. I could probably get around it. But, oh, there's a little trail. Look at that. now it's another one to climb all right that's as far as i'm going i gotta walk through all this scrub and everything and then it just drops off here uh i found the power lines like i showed you and um i could get to them if i if that was my destination if it was imperative that i did uh i could just keep following my bearings but i can see them now i'm i'm done i'm tired i'm gonna go back to camp I think that took me 25 minutes and it's about a kilometer or so yeah maybe I'll show you how I plan on getting back so there's the power line the power tower I saw that dot and I think that I'm here on this contour and I'm trying to get back right about there where it dips in at Loyce Lake so I'm gonna turn the compass because I can't do it with both hands and I'll get back okay so it's all set up I've got to go back north I came south so I just turned around. I orientated the map to it and I've got to go back that-a-way up that craziness. Making my way back and I found a trail and the trail goes somewhat which way I need to go. So I'm going to take advantage of that and walk on the trail for as much as I can. This is a really good exercise. It taught me a lot and I'm happy to learn it actually. It's It's one of my weak, one of my weak, strong, my weak skills, I guess. Oh, this trail is nice. It came out of all conifers, all red pine, and now I'm like in a hardwood stand, deciduous forest, all these leaves everywhere. Pretty colors. All right, so I made it back to camp, which is awesome. Ken must be still out doing his. This is the camp, the same camp site that me and my buddy stayed at. Had a video on that as well.