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 the ...

Trying to understand how a map relates to what’s on the ground can be tricky. It requires the brain to do a lot of stuff that it doesn’t customarily do daily. This is one of the reasons that ...

On August 26-27, the Fort Bliss, Texas Noncommissioned Officer Academy (NCOA) conducted map reading training in a classroom environment that concluded with a hands-on practical night and day land ...

There’s something about the pull of the great outdoors that seeps into your bones. You start off slow, maybe for a walk in the woods near your house. But soon, that call of the wild has you gearing up ...

Land navigation is making a comeback as part of the Army’s Basic Leader Course (BLC) with a return to active-duty schools planned for this year. This shift in the curriculum for the BLC was a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 7—You can read maps for years and not see all the information they have to offer. I should know. As a hiker, I rely on maps to ...

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