Re: Basic navigational skills badly missing

On 29 Nov 2005 04:42:05 -0800, danny_deever2000@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

[...]
>Mainly ignorance. I've never been in a white out but I'd kind of
>assumed that you had to sit tight rather than moving around.... At
>least that's what Jo Simpson and Simon Yates said they'd wished they'd
>done on TtV on Sunday night!

Much depends on where you are, though. They were at risk of falling to
their deaths, but in many places over here that risk is absent.
>
>If you *had* to move around then GPS would obviously be required. How
>else?

Well if you know exactly where you are, and decide where you want to
go, it's quite possible to take a bearing off the map, put it on the
compass and walk on it. Pacing and timing can be used to calculate
distance covered, although clearly the effectiveness of those methods
is going to be affected by the terrain. Much of the time, though, it
should be possible to have a pretty good idea of how far one has
worked on pacing alone. If it's possible to see things like walls as
well then the job becomes easier.
>
>> You say you're a sailor; you ever been offshore when the fog has come
>> in and wanted to find your harbour? I have and a GPS is the only tool
>> that would do that for you.
>
>Of course but I kind of thought mountains were different with lot's of
>unexpected dangers like crevasses and cliffs etc.

Again, it depends on where you are :)




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