The compass among us

Good reminder Roger, I've always carried a compass. Rarely need it but when I need it I NEED it. Examples

1. On the Colorado Trail followed what we thought was the trail then my buddy became more and more convinced we were wrong. I pulled out a topo map and compass and convinced him to keep going, saved us about a 5 mile backtrack to the last trail sign.

2. In Montana we lost our good map and navigated mostly with a compass off two mountains we could identify.

3. In spring snow in Colorado we lost the trail, set a compass bearing and hiked out successfully.

Rodger,

For whatever reason, I get dyslexic when I try to sort this stuff out in my head when I'm tired.

The reason I bought a compass with adjustable declination is to keep things as simple as possible for me when I'm not at my best.

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag-web/#declination

Very handy to find current declination. Declination changes, so older maps can be off by more than 2 degrees.

Edit typo: Can't be misspelling declination in a post about declination

That's a handy site, Bob, Thanks!