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<blockquote data-quote="UnderEmployedGeo" data-source="post: 628510" data-attributes="member: 20002"><p>You probably have come to the right place... plenty of us here would know a bit about all those things.</p><p></p><p>As for navigation, which is a potentially life-saving skill, apart from learning how to determine north from the sun's position and south from the stars at night, the next step is to learn how to read maps well. </p><p></p><p>If you can read a map, especially a topographic map (which shows contours) and you have a compass, you can pinpoint your location quite precisely depending on the conditions (using triangulation - you do need some hills or landmarks around to look at).</p><p></p><p>This looks like an interesting video series: <a href="https://youtu.be/hmKBrQpZ6U8" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/hmKBrQpZ6U8</a></p><p></p><p>Setting up camp is very much dependent on what you want it to look like - a swag? A tent? A towed camper or van? etc...</p><p></p><p>As for prospecting, well, yeah, a lot to learn on this forum, youtube is great for finding prospecting videos - you can lose hours watching these, but if a style of prospecting catches your imagination, look in to that for a while - find out what you need, get the gear and go for it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UnderEmployedGeo, post: 628510, member: 20002"] You probably have come to the right place... plenty of us here would know a bit about all those things. As for navigation, which is a potentially life-saving skill, apart from learning how to determine north from the sun's position and south from the stars at night, the next step is to learn how to read maps well. If you can read a map, especially a topographic map (which shows contours) and you have a compass, you can pinpoint your location quite precisely depending on the conditions (using triangulation - you do need some hills or landmarks around to look at). This looks like an interesting video series: [url]https://youtu.be/hmKBrQpZ6U8[/url] Setting up camp is very much dependent on what you want it to look like - a swag? A tent? A towed camper or van? etc... As for prospecting, well, yeah, a lot to learn on this forum, youtube is great for finding prospecting videos - you can lose hours watching these, but if a style of prospecting catches your imagination, look in to that for a while - find out what you need, get the gear and go for it! [/QUOTE]
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