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Survival Skillset

Lesson 6 of 14

Bearings from the ground: identify, resect and transit

45 min

The cloud lifts for ten minutes. Below you is a lake you think you recognise, a farm, and on the skyline a pointed summit and a long flat-topped hill. You are not sure where you are on this broad hillside, and you know the cloud will come back. Ten minutes is plenty, if you know what to do with them: two bearings, two pencil lines, and you know where you…

In this lesson

  • Taking a bearing from the ground and plotting it
  • Identifying a distant feature
  • Resection: fixing your position from what you can see
  • Worked example
  • Why the angle matters
  • Transit lines
  • Using the map with natural direction finding
  • Check yourself
  • Key points

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