"Hikers, leave a copy of plan route behind, take your maps and compass with you. It's awkward when you have to eat your friends."

Fantastic video. Thanks for sharing. 👍706

simply brilliant explanations

Super informative video. Thanks for the education. Useful. Might watch it again to internalize it all.

love your videos. your method of teaching is spot on for me . always called my navigation skills very basic, was very suprised at what i deem very basic is actually classed as intermediate. you hit the nail on the head when you said this is the level of skill needed for walking in the hills, i think that’s the reason i’ve always told myself i have basic skills. the additional historical info is fastinating

Here in 70,s Britain, tinned pineapple rings in syrup was our dessert with UHT squirty cream, so I think it's normal.

Why in kilometres, surely being in the uk it should be in miles? That wind chill formula in America must be wrong, because everyone speeds up when crossing the road🤔😁

The 'waffling' is part of the charm and great content, don't need to self-censor it. Great experience and wisdom you share. thanks.

Great video and the sandwiches sound nice.

10 mins for 100 m is pretty minimal. For me about 300 m per hour is the climbing rate. I am slow... :) But 600 m per hour is flying!

Great presentation. Another method aka The Geowizard: only ever move in a straight line, ignoring all terrain and obstacles.

Am I missing something? One of the first pictures says 10km walk @ 1.23 km per hour would take 12.3 hours? That's totally wrong, it's 10 divided by 1.23, which is just over 8 hours.

What Map case do you use? I think about to buy such greater model than mine.

Awesome

Less waffle man😉

Great video. Thanks

I think to be very good with map and compass navigation, but these solution -aim off- was unknown to me and i never came up this idee. Even if this is a very logic method. I am writing a manual for map, compass and GPS navigation. Especially the different coordinates systems, map reference frames, the map projections, the different circumferences 360°, 400 gon, the Mils, etc. Thanks for this valuable hint. In other of your video's i found more than once interesting tips. I like your videos, wel explained and correct. Unfortunately i see about these items so many junk, here on YT or on the internet, sometimes they are even really dangerous.

Can you help me out on the math at the beginning of the clip? If you need to walk 10km and you are walking at a pace of 1.23km/h it should take 8.13 hours not 12.3 hours.

I have a question, when did we start using metric for distance in the UK. It seems to be getting used more and more. As I understand it, we still use the imperial measurement to work out our distance traveled etc.

I use 12-15mins per km plus 1 min for every contour line crossed

Great video. Thanks. I have always used the maxim “ average marching speed of 3 miles per hour” as my basic guide. Has worked for me.

The waffles are as educational as the navigation instruction. Keep on with the waffles.

Thanks

I trust astronomical objects more than surveys, i think calibrating a compass using a full moon after sunset is more accurate.

From my personal exp here in Algeria, relying on google maps blindly is stupid, it's helpful specially in densely populated areas, when stuck in traffic, but it sometimes lead you in restricted roads, wrong directions ..etc I had better experience with open street maps, because they put their trust into the users editing unlike google. also my old phone's gps stopped wroking once during a trip in the sahara desert to tamanrasset, imagine you rely on your gps or phone during a mission critical trip and it fails yo, luckily i didn't had to and i was just on taking the main road and using common sense. open flat swaths of lands without any landmarks or terrain are certainly terrfing because you can get easily lost in them and you can miss your target even if it;s just a hundred metters away if its low on the ground like a water well.

Ok I’ll bite on the rule of thumb comment.

Cool information. But now we need to know about "rule of thumb". Waffle on!

Excellent as always! Thank you 😊👍🏻👍🏻😎

Why would you need so many different types of compasses?, if you are in the North a free suspended bar magnetic aligns North without dipping, same at the equator and same further south, it still points North.

Why does a bar magnet not dip in the North?

Novice: you go on a life's journey Intermediate: you become lost! Advanced: you become the "thing".

Where is your friend with coffee and sandwiches? That would have been nice. Cheers!

Brilliant video - keep them coming.

If some app is monitoring my progress I’m going to be outlier data. My goal is never the destination, but rather interesting photographs. It may take me an hour to go 400 meters. Oh, that’s a bagel sandwich 😊

At measuring long distances, you are substituting the guesswork of measuring straight line distance for horizontal (left to right) distance using this method.

That’s a brisk pace.

Very good Video about the😅😅 subject. But, an honest request to the SILVA company: 1. Please make it possible to fix the mirror at 45°. I own 6 mirror compasses from Silva, and all won't hold the position after some time. 2. No mirror compass from Silva kept its luminous markings on top of the cover after unboxing it. I bought a roll of cheap chinese luminous marking bands, cut a narrow slice off and glued it in the position. Now that marking is the stronges and longest glowing one on this compass.

Another very interesting video. Thank you

Thanks I might watch this again to take more in . Most of my SOTA hikes are roughly 16 minute per Km. I am 71 carrying 8kg of kit and ppe, now I can also add the time for altitude gain because as the country gets steeper i end up closer to 20 minutes per Km.

Thank you very much for your consistently helpful and interesting content. In Switzerland, we use a similar rule: 15 minutes for 1 kilometer, 15 minutes for 100 meters uphill, and 15 minutes for 200 meters downhill. The rule is from the SAC (Schweizer Alpen-Club). Perhaps it is based on the same rule as in Britain. We use this rule to plan a route approximately. The keyword is "approximately."

Naismith is a good starting position, over time with practice it is quite simple to work out your own formula; 4kph + 5min for every 100m, that's me! (Groups never more than 3kph, all that chatting!)

thanks