How to Navigate Using the Upper Winds and Clouds
I have written in the past about the basics of using the weather to navigate. Here I’d like to offer a couple of tips to…
Find out how to read water
Tag: direction
Sharpening Skills at the Start and End of the Day
Just before you see the sun rise in the morning or just after it has set for you in the evening, try to work out…
Sunrise and Sunset Direction
It would be true to say that I would not be writing this blog if the sun rose in the same place each day. In…
Leaning Telegraph Poles
My thanks to Richard Webber for sending in this photo. The telegraph poles in this picture are leaning from the southwest to the northeast. This…
Thomas Manning
Thomas Manning (1772-1840) was an eccentric academic and the first British traveller to reach Tibet. After donning a heavy disguise and much perseverance and patience…
Natural Navigation and Sunscreen in One Tree
I recently came across this short video by Michael Barton. It contains a neat natural navigation tip and bushcraft at its most fun. Click on…
Grass and Grass
The heat seems to have abated a little, but the sun has left its great big footprints all over the countryside. The baked earth is…
The Direction of Mecca
I came across this fantastic map showing the direction of Mecca, known as ‘al Qiblah’, from different parts of the world. It shows quite beautifully…
Courting Bustards
‘Courting bustards’ is not an excellent new profanity, something that would sound good with rasping voice and sent in the general direction of a parking…