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How to Navigate with Map and Compass: A Beginner's Guide
Navigation is the foundation skill of hillwalking. Everything else, choice of route, decision-making in bad weather, getting home safely, depends on knowing where you are and being able to work out how to get where you’re going. The good news is that map and compass navigation is not complicated. The principles are simple and can be learned by anyone. What takes time is practice, the ability to read terrain quickly and navigate fluently comes from time spent on the hill with a map in your hand.