My wife and I enjoy hiking off trail and for our bushwhacking adventures, we use a paper topographic map, a compass and a handheld GPSR.

It's a shame how many people don't know how to use a compass, especially when the National Park Service lists it as a top 10 safety item. Here's how to get started. The post How to use a compass for ...

Let's take a look at the functional pieces and parts of a compass. North-seeking Needle: This floating needle in the housing always points to magnetic north. The north-seeking needle will be red ...

A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation ...

1. This device, when used onboard aircraft, tells the pilots how fast the vehicle is ascending or descending. American ...

These days, turn-by-turn GPS navigation isn’t considered special anymore. It’s in every smartphone and most cheap rental cars, and thus everybody expects you to figure out where ...

Magnus von Horn and Vic Carmen Sonne dissect the complexities of their film ‘The Girl with the Needle’, loosely inspired by ...

Poscierre: January 31 at 7:57:04 PM EST Loading Chart for CMPS ...