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This material is taken from Chapter 6 - Wilderness Travel from The Backpackers Field Manual by Rick Curtis. For more details on this exciting book check out The Backpacker's Field Manual Page. This ...

The four main points on a compass are: north, east, south and west. A compass is used to work out direction. A four-point compass can give a rough direction whereas a sixteen-point compass is much ...

Here’s a great little SketchUp video tutorial from the folks at concept3D, who we’ve shown you before with their excellent models at Northeastern University, Duke University and fun tools like the ...

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