I have watched several compass reading tutorial, and yours is the most easiest way to understand it. thanks

11 years later and you're still helping people find out how exactly to use a compass. Because of the other videos i never thought it would've actually been this easy to understand but thanks to your clear and straight-to-the-point explanation i fully understand now. Thank you so much.

By far the most direct explanation I have come across after hours of watching these tutorials. Good teaching.

Best 3 minute tutorial on basic use of a compass! Thanks again!

Great video - short, simple and clear. Well done! Thank you!

Most helpful video on how to use a compass we've seen (for complete newbies).

As others said, I have watched a few, and it just didn't click, this one finally made it all make sense, thank you!

Thank you for the wonderful response and for your suggestions! We are currently working on a follow up video that will go into more depth about some of these concepts. -Naturalist Michelle

By far the best tutorial for teaching kids how to use a compass. Just the right amount of info presented clearly and concisely. Thank you!

I do quite a bit of geological tracking, and I have to use my compass all the time. This was a very good tutorial of how to face the direction you want/need to go, probably the most important use of a compass in survival situations. Too many of these vids are way too complicated for beginners, like trying to show how to run in parallel, etc. but they never just show you how to go “that way” and what “that way “ is. Great content, thank you!!

You are my very favorite teacher...thank you...I looked at lots of them...teach me something else!! Great Job!

Fantastic! To the point, easy to understand and remember - thank you! Too many videos out there breaking it down into baby steps, when all you want is some useful information. Please make more!!!!!! Our Scouts love them :)

Thank you for learing me how to use a compass. Real good instruction, good and quick.

Been so many years since I needed to use a compass so I just needed a quick refresher. This was perfect. Thank you

I like this person and her explanation is very clear like water

This is by far the best simple compass tutorial video that I have found for sending to our scouts for review!

Oh gosh, I bet you are no longer with the service but THANK YOU! By far the easiest to follow basics I have ever come across.

You should be also a teacher, you make things easy

The best tutorial on the compass-Carolyn, I hope that you are running MRCA by now.

That was a pleasure to watch, you delivered a valuable lesson in an easy to understand way. Perfect, thank you.

My teacher sent me here and this is the second video that I’ve watched and this one by far is the best out of the two So helpful thank you so much

Brilliant. just what beginners need, some slow, easy, and concise instruction. It took me a while scrolling through a million other vids before I found this. I'm not saying the other vids were rubbish just that this presentation was awesome. Now to check and see what else is on this site.

EXCELLENT. BRILLIANT. EASY to understand. Thank you. Well Done.

very clearly explained with out any confusion,thanks carolyn

All the other tutorials make it sound so confusing! This is probably the best one.

Great job! This video is by far the easiest to understand.

I have to teach a group of girls how to use a compass tomorrow and this greatly helped! All the other compass tutorials I watched were very confusing but this video made it easy to understand

Great explanation- easy to follow and clear. Best of all- no music or long intro! Should be titled- how to use a compass in ~3 minutes!

I agree with JanesvillePE. Great Video. I actually taught my 7 year old to use a compass using this format. Simple, easy to remember and it works. Great Job!!

Most simple and explicit tutorial. Thank you!

Thank you for a great video. I watched others but yours was the most easy to understand. Thank you!

Wow...I'm glad you broke that down and made it simple. I was lost on some of the other videos. Thanks

Great Video! Short and straight to the point. I actually feel like I understand how to use a compass now.

You are so cute. I could watch you give compass instruction all day long.

Excellent tuition. Short, simple and straight to the point. A shame all the others just wasted so much time showing how to use a compass

I watched a hundred compass vids yours I got thank you

Thanks for the explanation! Im new to hiking and found this very helpful!

I never bother with the compass as my gut instinct has always brought me to my destination and back. I'm happy to know that I now know how to use a compass! 😎

Best compass tutorial on youtube

Thank G, a video that speaks my language...got it... ready for the next level. Thank You

awesome and easy to understand , thank you !!!!

Way more helpful than any other tutorial I’ve seen

Very clear and to the point..thank you so much!

Good starting point for beginners. She has a unique presentation voice. I checked the YT site and there are no follow up videos on compass use. Too bad.

Thank you! I have watched dozens of tutorial trying to find the right one to use with children. All the others were either far too simplistic or far too complicated. This one strikes just the right balance.

Ok, Right Said Fred, now which direction?

super helpful, thank you so much for making this tutorial :)

Thank you, this tutorial was simple yet very acurate

This is amazing,thank you.

Hello people, cool video

Yes, but on my dial, the N is between 02 and 62 and I don't get the 62 division dial. At the base of the disk, there is an other dail with 360"" division what is hard to see from looking down at it...?

thank you ! you're a good teacher

This was the most simple video compared to others to take a bearing thanks to the video zooming in on the compass so you can see what's going on etc.

Wow the light just turned on for me!!!

Very helpful... Thanks!

Yours is soo easy to understand Thanks so much!

Because of the coming micronova, declination is moving much farther, and much faster and so declination information is likely incorrect but there is still a way to recalibrate magnetic declination using the shadow of sticks recording the path of the sun---rotation of the earth has not yet changed. First stick will show East. Mark it with a sharp stick pushed in. After a few minutes you can mark sun shadow travel where the shadow has moved - Push another stick in to mark West. Lay a straight stick from the E mark to the W mark. Geographic north or True North is 90 degrees from the E-W line. With your compass pointing toward True North, note how far off your compass is now. That is your true up-to-date declination. My up-to-date declination is 30 degrees, 15 degrees off from the official declination for my area. More on micronova in my 2nd book, Surviving the Micronova: This Train Is on the Tracks is now available

I think all hikers should be ask to take a compass and for sure know how to use it. That little piece of metal and plastic can be a life saver when a person looses the trail markers.

"I'm too sexy for my compass" - Red Shed Fred

Awesome tutorial. Now to teach my troop how to use a compass. Thanks!

Great video thanks for shareing vary useful.....

thanks, im doing my dofe bronze this year and i have no idea if we need to have a compass or not.

very well explained, thank you!

Very articulate and to the point. But, the plate in my head and bolts in my right knee and left elbow make it difficult to get a bearing.

Thank you very much!

clear and easy to understand, thanks

Amazing God bless you

Great explanation well done thank you

I just dropped a like

Yes I have to agree this one was the most easiest to understand. the other ones , just kept confusing me thank you ...

No discussion of declination?

Brief & concise. Thank you.

great video thank you

What a great post.

thank you, very useful

Love both longitude, latitude and the four direction north, south, east and west.

carry extra battries and my etrex 30 always gets signal but a compass can't hurt

Oh my gosh - perfectly explained for my confused brain thankyou!

hi 👋🏽 JUST SUBSCRIBED TO YOUR CHANNEL on today November 16/2021) thanks for sharing your knowledge on the correct way of using the compass, with us, this was very helpful information on the proper way of using the Compass, thumbs up this Video 👍🏻.

Does the metal on your ring affect the compass you are holding?

now i know how to use a compass after scrolling several videos

Was transitioning to this from a military lensatic compass hard for anyone else? Does it seem backwards to you? Any thoughts on which is better?

Question so once W is in DOG and red Fred is in the shed, do you follow Fred in shed or do you follow w in the DOG

Thank You Carolyn

this was sick man 😂😂😂😂🎉

Great presenter

What about magnetic variation? Do you adjust clockwise or anti clockwise?

Wow thank you

I’m using your instructions for a game called ARK but it will still work the same. Lol. Thank you.

Perfect.. now just to be able to know the direction you want to go is West to begin with!

Now, that's a teacher material.

wow really helpful thx

That’s the easiest tutorial for using compass ever.

This video has just saved my arse for the gps n mapping practical part of my exam tomorrow! XD

Direct clear thank you

Great job

Hi can anyone tell me what will happen if I use my northern hemisphere compass in the southern hemisphere will it still work?

I graduated high school in 2009 and my friends can't believe I wasn't taught this in school

THANKS

Terrific. Thanks.