Orientation & Navigation

Part of Phase 0: First 72 Hours

• Bottle Barometer
• Celestial Navigation
• Climate-Specific Shelters
• Cloud Reading
• Cumulus Types
• Dead Reckoning
• Fair Weather Clouds
• Frost Prediction
• Handrail Features
• Humidity Control
• Landmark Memory: Back-Bearings and Mental Maps
• Lightning Distance
• Making a Magnetic Compass
• Map Making
• Moon Direction: The Crescent Tip Line Method
• Natural Barometers
• Navigation Without Technology
• North Star Finding: Big Dipper and Cassiopeia
• Pace Counting
• Pitch Angles and Drip Lines
• Pressure Signs
• Route Planning
• Scale and Symbol Systems
• Seasonal Changes
• Seasonal Patterns
• Shadow Stick
• Sky Color Rules
• Star Navigation: North Star and Southern Cross
• Storm Clouds
• Storm Safety
• Stratus Layers
• Sun Methods
• Sunrise and Sunset Colors
• Terrain Navigation: Navigating by Landscape
• Terrain Reading
• Triangulation
• True vs Magnetic North
• Weather Forecasting
• Wind Direction Reading
• Wind Patterns
• Wind Speed Estimation