Outdoor
Awareness Clinic March 12, 19 & 21-23, 2003
Chris Jacobi
Table of Contents
All links tested March 2004. Most links are external
and not Boy Scout oriented.
Scout Books
- Orienteering
- Venture Pamphlet No 3439. Strictly as sport. Exercises
- Orienteering
- Merit Badge Book. 33385. Includes instruction. I like it. Don't
use pre-1992 editions.
- Basic Backpacking Awareness Syllabus
- Western Region Area III
P43-50 Basicly only a list of skills; useless.
- The Boy Scout Handbook
- Tenth Edition: P179-211 Pretty good.
Eleventh Edition: P63-74 & P118-119 Too short to be useful.
- Fieldbook
- 3rd Edition: If you don't want to buy special books; this is the best.
No
3200 P21-40
4th Edition: Better then 3rd Edition
No. 33104 P171-191
Other Books
- This book section is rather short; because I haven't bought too many yet.
The Outdoors Almanac, (Len McDougall)
- The navigation chapter (P53-64) has not enough depth.
- The NOLS Wilderness Guide, (Mark Harvey)
- Pretty good. I sometimes think it may be hard, or too short if one doesn't
already know the subject. P179-202
- The Essential Wilderness Navigator
- Pretty good. Too long unless you love reading.
- Mountaineering The Freedom of the Hills
- Most is about Mountaineering which I can't judge. The 25 pages about
navigation are very good.
Maps on CD (or on the web)
- Outdoors On Disk (CD)
- Big scale only. No software help. Not recommended.
Going out of business
- TOPO! Interactive Maps On CD-ROM
- Very good finding and screen navigation. Good details. Prints don't look
perfect but it is the best program I know.
http://www.topo.com/
- DeLorme Top USA (CD)
- Hard to find any area. Not recommended for making trip maps.
http://www.delorme.com/
- GearReview (website)
- Another review; More systems. http://www.gearreview.com/topomap99.asp
- TopoZone (website)
- http://www.topozone.com/
It has every USGS map for the United States. Type in the place you want to
see, and it will display the relevant topo map, which you can print at different
scales
- TerraServer
- http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
Look at USGS aerial or SPIN-2 satellite photos of almost any location in the
US at 1 meter resolution. (A bit slow over a dial-up line.)
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Worls Wide Web
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- The Backpackers Field Manual (Rick Curtis)
- (This is actually a commercial for that book)
- http://www.princeton.edu/~oa/manual/index.html
Guide to Map & Compass chapter http://www.princeton.edu/~oa/manual/mapcompass.shtml
- Maptech Mapserver
- http://www.maptech.com
Provides full access to search and
view the entire collection of Maptech Topographic Maps and Nautical Charts
- Free!
- Larry's Map Page
- List of links. http://home.earthlink.net/~laanderson/laa-maps.htm
- USGS US Geological Survey
- http://www.usgs.gov/
Mapping Home Page http://mapping.usgs.gov/
Western mapping center http://mapping.usgs.gov/
Topographic Map Symbols http://mapping.usgs.gov/mac/isb/pubs/booklets/symbols/
Topographic mapping http://mapping.usgs.gov/mac/isb/pubs/booklets/topo/topo.html
- Cibola SAR Land Navigation training
- Their training handout: http://www.swcp.com/csar/nav_lesson/nav_handout3.html
Good short introduction
They also have other lessons: http://www.swcp.com/csar/minilessons.shtml
- Outdoor Action Web Site
- http://www.princeton.edu/~oa/manual/mapcompass.shtml
The whole chapter about navigation is on the web. I like it a lot.
- Spider Canon Library
- http://www.spidercanyon.com/mapnav.html
http://www.spidercanyon.com/backiss/mapnav2.html
http://www.spidercanyon.com/backiss/mapnav3.html
- How to Use a Compass (Kjetil Kjernsmo)
- http://www.uio.no/~kjetikj/compass/
A classic!!!
- How to Read a Topographic Map
- http://www.ghosttowns.com/topotmaps.html
Specially, coordinate systems
- RouteChoice
- http://www.fi.uib.no/~jankoc/htbin/routechoice.cgi
A clever program showing orienteering courses and several people's rout choice
on the course. Educational to me.
- Magnetic Declination FAQ
- http://www.geocities.com/magnetic_declination/
Rather specialized
- REI List their compasses
- (But you can get cheap (good enough) compasses at your scout store and
fancy compasses at an orienteering meet; I was rather disappointed with the
selection of fancy compasses at REI)
- What is Orienteering?
- http://www.williams.edu:803/Biology/orienteering/
Extremely well done
- GORP - Getting Found - How to Navigate in the Outdoors - Survival in the
90s
- http://www.gorp.com/gorp/publishers/menasha/how_surv.htm
Nothing special
- BAOC Bay Area Orienteering Club
- http://www.baoc.org/ No introductions
on web.
The local orienteering club. Here because you might want to participate in
a local orienteering event.
- Scout Orienteering
- http://www.scoutorienteering.com/
Merit badge info: http://www.scoutorienteering.com/meritbadge01.htm
- Map Reading Game
- http://www.ksclick.com/games/montana/mtmap.html Sorry
this isn't there anymore. (It was absolutely good)
Photo and map pairing
GPS
I'm afraid they lure people into the wilderness, "its easy", until the battery
is dead.
Maybe you can make it access 4 satelites from down in a deep
and forested canyon?
GPS, Map & Compass (a page from USGS)
Very good! http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/outreach/gps.html
Using the UTM/MGRS map coordinate system (Good intro to UTM coordinates)
http://www.maptools.com/UsingUTM/index.html
GPS World http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/
GPS Garmin; http://www.garmin.com/
Magellan; http://www.magellangps.com/
Trimble; http://www.trimble.com/
This is http://www.scoutway.net/topics/landnavigation/refs.html
