Orienteering Using a Thumb Compass
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- How to navigate using map and compass: thumb compass use for orienteering in several settings. Brought to you by Kelsey and Rick.
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Thank you for this important info! I was 'slightly' disoriented in the rugged Carson Iceberg Wilderness when 3 hour solo hike turned into 11 hours as the guys fished. I was navigating by memory of the trailhead map and sun. Got hairy as I got dehydrated & storm and nightfall came. Even on a short hike, I will now always bring a compass & more water. Paper map, whistle or gun too for signalling if lost, dehydrated or injured. Scary when your legs will barely move anymore and you're in bear & mountain lion country! Luckily I made it back to the trailhead with improvised walking sticks just as sheriff was going to send out search & rescue helicopter. Best to you in your adventures!
Katinka, it is quite a story! Definitely having a printed map and compass with you anytime you're in the back country is a good idea. Also, smart phone wilderness GPS apps have come a long way, and can be excellent to carry as well. Search UA-cam for "Gaia GPS" to see some tutorials on using one of the best apps.
I like the SILVA 1 2 3 method. Today I tried the thumb compass method. By folding the map etc. this is simply the best and most useful for me. By having the map constantly in front and seeing what was coming up next made a lot more since, this will be my method for the future. I have to say I've used a GPS a great deal and I like this a whole lot better as I can concentrate on the surrounding better it fact it requires it. This for me in my opinion works better I have had trouble looking constantly at a GPS and not my surroundings.
Would you belive I was a navigator in the United States Coast Guard, long time ago. Thanks appreciate this article very much.
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I've now tried both, having learned the 1,2,3 method in Scouts some time ago. A nice thing about 1,2,3 is that the compass can be set and left. I have a Silva Spectra and have to remember its orientation or keep it held on the map. Still, I found it worked well experimenting with it last night. I was able to move quickly even artificially using the compass more than needed to make sure I was familiar with it. I was also able to triangulate easily enough with it using it to spot features and work out where along the big path through the field I was.
Great video! I love using your compasses!!
Nice, clear explanation. Thank you, I have problems panning with a GoPro too!
Watching vids on map & compass. Yours is the best so far. Good lookin' out!
Though REI has a good tutorial explaining parts of the compass and usage.
Great video! Very useful. Than you!
very usefull , thanx guys .
Very cool.
HI! Im looking for a intro video to orienteering without the technical aspect of a Score-O (the dibbler). This is great. Do you have one using a traditional compass which are what most people have access to. When we go, we line up edge of compass with line of travel. I'd love to see that video to show "newbies"
Nice video.
I bought a Moscompass 3 stable and it is about useless. The north needle is very heavy (unbalanced needle). The needle accuracy is only therefore as accurate as your ability to hold the compass level. A few degrees of tilt results in 10-15 degrees of error. I can swing the needle around the clock just by tilting the compass in any direction. My Suunto MC-2 is much, much more accurate and every bit as fast and more stable as I don't have to fiddle with getting it level. I think I'll have to send the Moscompass back and stick with the Suunto or try another brand.
Just starting out, and was searching for thumb compass reviews. I think I heard you mention that this was a model 3, but I was wondering which company made it.
Also, video reminded me of modern vampire movies with the sped up movement :)
This one is by "Moscompass", Russia. You may check Suunto (Finland) and Silva (Sweden) as well. Check carefully - there are models lacking rotating capsule.
Hi Jestre, As Serghei points out, it is a Moscompass. And we carry it as part of Wildwood Adventure Outfitters. Google this name or check the link above, provided by Kelsey. ~Rick
I like your method. Is there any declination. My area is 15 degrees west declination. There was a saying used by my flight instructor that "east is least, west is best"; so we would add 15 to the true north to get our compass setting. In an aircraft you could be off a country mile or miles if this was not done because of the long distances. Thank you, I've never orienteering.
Thomas, Good of you to bring up declination. In most all areas of navigating, accounting for declination can be important, especially when you're trying to find a small object over a long distance. However, in orienteering competitions, naps are often printed with magnetic north at the top of the map, not true north. What maps are printed like this, you can follow the magnetic bearing and completely ignore declination. This makes orienteering with a compass faster and easier in the heat of competition.
Orienteering maps are already adjusted for declination, so it does not come into play. When using a non-orienteering map, I like to adjust on the map by drawing a bold magnetic north line and then making sure my compass needle is parallel to that line.
Does the Moscow model 3 (or other thumb compasses for that matter) allow adjustment for magnetic deviation?
no
What software did you use to make that map? Would love to use it for Boy Scouts
There is a free program "Open Orienteering Mapper" that you can use to create orienteering maps.
This was very helpful.
I'm right handed for writing and throwing. Should I get a compass for my left hand or right hand? Or does it matter?
Usually a right handed person will wear their compass on their left thumb. But, do what is comfortable for you.
where do you get a map like that?
We made it use OCAD software. Contact your local orienteering club - they will have excellent maps.
Also, there is free orienteering mapping software available: Open Orienteering Mapper. I am currently converting and updating the map we used in the video to OOM.
Nice video...but you complicated the choice at the 2nd trail junction...simplified, all you needed to do was go East, not left...
Very cute, trainrunners underneath a skirt. :) Very helpful video as well on the orienteering. I might wanna try it out as well, or perhaps as part of adventure 'racing'.
Generally, this is helpful information. However, I got it after the first timer to you demonstrated it, and this video could've been about three minutes longer than eight. Also, I was getting a little motion sick from the blurry and jerky camera work. You might want to consider shooting this video again, making it shorter, and using a more stable camera system.
Thanks! We are considering remaking the compass and orienteering techniques videos.
I kept getting freaked when the vid quickend while she ran.