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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