This article will save your life. A basic paper map is the simplest, most reliable and most effective way to find your location and navigate somewhere ...

It’s time to go analog with your navigation tools. Using a map and compass is one of the most reliable foundational skills of the wilderness.

Ditching GPS for a Topo Map and Compass Darran Wells, who wrote the book on wilderness navigation (literally), lends his wisdom on navigation sans GPS, from topographic maps to the North Star.

Learning to navigate using an electronic device involves reading an instruction manual, whereas map and compass skills are learned via a gradual process of trial and error, putting theory into ...

At the center of that push is land navigation, which tasks soldiers with plotting points on a map with a protractor and finding spots in the woods using a compass during both day and night.

So what can you do with a map and compass? Unfortunately, not geocaching. The resolution of most maps just isn't adequate to find a cache. But taking a compass along on a geocaching hunt is a very ...