Backpacker magazine's Trailside Navigation: Map and Compass (Backpacker Magazine Series) - Softcover

Absolon, Molly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0762756543 ISBN 13: 9780762756544

Verlag: Falcon Guides, 2010

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Backpacker's Trailside Navigation informs readers about choosing and using a compass; basic map reading skills; plotting a course and finding your way through the wilderness; using stars to navigate rivers, streams and trails at night; using maps and compass in concert with a GPS receiver. This handy pocket-sized guide is 96 pages, includes two popouts, and incorporates color photos, charts, and illustrations as needed throughout the interior.

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Molly Absolon is a former NOLS instructor, an environmental educator, and outdoor writer. She is the author of the Backpacker Magazine Core Skills books Campsite Cooking, Trailside Navigation, Trailside First Aid, and Outdoor Survival. 

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Backpacker magazine's Trailside Navigation brings you essential mind gear from the two most respected and reliable publishers of outdoor-related information. Learn how to choose and use a compass and altimeter, read a map, plot a course and find your way through the wilderness, and use maps and compass in concert with a GPS receiver. Perfect for pack or pocket, this book breaks down its subject into the essential topics, providing practical and portable information useful in the field. Full-color photos and illustrations complement concise, clear text, introducing you to basic and intermediate skills needed to safely and successfully get by in the outdoors.

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• Verlag: Falcon Guides
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0762756543
• ISBN 13: 9780762756544
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 88
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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