Sure, not all who wander are lost. But when you've been walking in circles for hours and your day hike is stretching into an overnight, that saying is cold comfort. The solution? Don't get lost in ...

It aids in adjusting declination, which we will cover later. Index Line: This immovable line lies directly beneath the compass dial. Typically, it is white, but like other items mentioned here ...

Experts from REI do a great job of explaining the basic parts of a compass and how to use them, but here is the breakdown: Magnetic declination is the angle between magnetic north and true north ...

If magnetic north lies directly between you and true north, then you’ll have a declination of zero. But in most areas, you’ll have to add or subtract to what your compass reads as north.

The Fairbanks declination I set on my works-with-no-battery handheld compass in 2003 adjusted for a geographic north reading that was 24 degrees west of magnetic north. If I were to find that ...

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