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Effective Planning of a Remote Terrain Hike and Getting Your Bearings With and Without Maps

A) Tired to travel in developed regions, which were described many times and have a lot of exact maps?
B) Want to be a pioneer?
C) Love tropical forest and deep gorges of rivers which names you haven’t ever heard?
D) Planing to go strait between certain points outside your home country?

If you’ve chosen at least one item, the article below will for sure help you.

It’s not an instruction for beginners. You can find a lot of materials considering the art of getting your bearings and finding a way. You probably have also heard this from your alpinist instructor. This article concerns specific problems in planning and getting your bearings that arise in really remote region (outside your home country) and gives you some methods to solve these problems. Also the article accents the algorithms of using maps from different sources which are of different quality and number of details.