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    When I started a thread about this a few years ago I ended up reading a bunch of good links, and wanted to try it out, but wasn't ever sure how to proceed. Do you just go to a place that has two known points, start at one, and try to navigate to the other?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
    When I started a thread about this a few years ago I ended up reading a bunch of good links, and wanted to try it out, but wasn't ever sure how to proceed. Do you just go to a place that has two known points, start at one, and try to navigate to the other?
    that would probably be the best thing to try. start somewhere small...like 2 miles away. take a GPS and make sure you have cell coverage and good weather for the initial runs.

    then make the distance greater. introduce weather. somewhere unknown.

    then start at an unknown location, and head to a known location.

    that is the way I would try it. but I never really use maps. I have topo on my GPS, use my cell with google mags to learn an area ahead of time, terrain features etc, and grew up hunting and getting left by my dad to figure my way back to camp.
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    Quote Originally Posted by zteknik View Post
    Beat me to it,although I was going to say Army
    Then for advanced training- Ranger school
    Never got to Ranger School, but I spend some time at Harmony Church running around the Benning land nav courses. How come kudzu doesn't show up on a topo map? It should be clearly marked on a 1:50,000.

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    I heard that 303 arms was planning on doing something this summer.

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    If you show up at an unknown location, how do you find where you are on the map? Landmarks?
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    Not quite relevant to your question but.....You might check out the USGS map store on the Denver Federal Center. When I was there some years ago I remember them mentioning some classes. But for all I know it might just be basic map reading for cub scouts. Its worth a shot to ask however. If nothing else it is a good source of lots of hard to find otherwise maps.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
    If you show up at an unknown location, how do you find where you are on the map? Landmarks?
    Resection. Find two or preferably three distinct terrain features (natural or man-made) that you can also identify on your map. Take a back azimuth from each feature, adjust for declination, and draw the lines from the features on your map along the back azimuth. Where the lines intersect is where you are.

    If you're somewhere with no terrain features, you're screwed.
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    You can get free maps online if you search for them. Also Google maps will give you lat/longs. If you google "hawgview" and click the link that says Neo's CAS Simulator (you might get a warning message, but trust me, its safe) you can get MGRS overlays and anywhere you click on the map will give you the location in multiple formats and the elevation. It's basically Google earth with more features. You can put tactical map symbols on your overlay if that's your thing (smiley). I use it al the time for work.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sharpienads View Post
    Resection. Find two or preferably three distinct terrain features (natural or man-made) that you can also identify on your map. Take a back azimuth from each feature, adjust for declination, and draw the lines from the features on your map along the back azimuth. Where the lines intersect is where you are.

    If you're somewhere with no terrain features, you're screwed.
    I don't know what a back azimuth is without looking it up, but you explained it in a way that I was able to figure out how you would do what you explained. Thanks!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
    I don't know what a back azimuth is without looking it up, but you explained it in a way that I was able to figure out how you would do what you explained. Thanks!
    No problem. Back azimuth is just 180 degrees away from whatev your compass says.
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