MICRO NAVIGATION | Make Your Life Harder To Make It Easier

MICRO NAVIGATION | Make Your Life Harder To Make It Easier
In this video I take a day out on some of the less well known areas of North Wales to spend some time focussing on my micro-navigation skills.
I explain how making your life "navigationally harder" than it sometimes needs to be can pay dividends in the long run.
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0:00 Intro
01:00 Ring contour
04:56 Contour line kink
07:02 Midway between contour lines on steep ground
08:33 Track stream junction
11:00 Review of the day.
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[@my_handle....]

HI Craig, Practicing Nav in areas of few prominent features will keep you safe in feature rich landscapes when the weather closes in. Brilliant video. Thank you, Tony

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

Hi T M and many thanks as always for supporting my channel by taking the time to drop by, watch and comment, it's really appreciated. I'm glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for the positive feedback, cheers! Don't forget to share the video if you think that others in your network might benefit, I'd really appreciate it, cheers! 👍

[@terryc47]

Great exercise. Perhaps one of the hardest battles with navigation is the one in one's head. Learning micro navigation in open country with a map, will help one visualize contour lines in action. And it takes only short distances to achieve this in open country, and how mapped features relate to real world circumstances. Then when in the thick of it, with restricted visibility like a forest, one should be able to trust their map and compass, these instruments are telling the truth.

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

+@terryc47 Hi @terryc47 and many thanks for taking the time to drop by my channel, watch and comment, it's really appreciated. I'm glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for the positive feedback, cheers! Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already, I'd really appreciate it, cheers! 👍

[@emotiveeye]

Great little video! Thank you!

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

You're very welcome. I have an entire playlist, focusing on map reading and land navigation so feel free to check that out and don't forget to subscribe to my channel if you'd like to see more in the future.

[@breiffnihogan4136]

Have to say thanks again for your straight talking, no nonsense presentation. In the medium term I'll be starting training for my ML and this has cleared up my understanding of micro navigation. I am proficient at both timing and pacing and now see how I can use pacing, where appropriate along with careful bearing to really use the map to its best potential. Another fear dispelled. Excellent. :-)

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

It's great to read that you're taking real value from these videos Breiffni, thanks for taking the time to provide this feedback.

[@lesdrinkwater490]

Micro nav is good fun. It really gets us to practice, review and refresh our skills. Pacing - this changes all the time . Walking on a bearing- few points to fix on and over uneven ground can allow us to drift. Checking Map to ground . I often find the GPS and map don't match when I know my position. I use the GPS as a guide. It leads me back to the basics of navigation, that is why micro nav is fun. I am now old with knackered knees but still enjoy the outdoors and using these skills. Thanks Craig for the video.

[@seanthomasdowd]

Great seeing you posting again Craig, hope the move went smooth

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

Cheers Sean, it feels good to be back and posting again.

[@andreborsch2266]

Hi Craig! Finally, we got a new (longer) video. And it is a Navigation vid! Yeaaahhhh! ATB André

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

+Andre Börsch Hi Andre Börsch and many thanks as always for supporting my channel by taking the time to drop by, watch and comment, it's really appreciated. I'm glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for the positive feedback, cheers! Don't forget to share the video if you think that others in your network might benefit, I'd really appreciate it, cheers! 👍

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

“It’s a blank featureless wilderness Darling” “You’ve got the map upside down Sir”

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

Classic!

[@mick4862]

Come to dartmoor on a foggy day, thats great practice. The bogs are a great incentive to get it right.

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

+Mick I remember it well!

[@beatbasher]

Good nav advice as usual mate. When looking at minute details like this kink in the stream just bear in mind that on flatter ground watercourses can change course. Good advice as well when looking for small streams they will often be surrounded by longer grass, often stiffer and tuftier that the mounds of rough ground surrounding them. And on boggy ground where you need to ford the stream but the surrounding land is under water , often those tufts can bear enough weight for you to use them like stepping stones and can save you getting wet feet or save you unwittingly putting your ankle down an unseen hole and going over. Walking poles are particularly helpful for that too if you have mud baskets fitted.

[@BASurvival]

Nice video, a great thing to practice to get out and try to micro nav in featureless areas. Dartmoor is another good place to train these skills. 👍

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

Cheers fella, glad you enjoyed the video. Dartmoor is indeed another good place to really refine those micro-nav skills.

[@synappticuser5669]

Great stuff Craig. All the outdoor vids I see all have presenters who have all their bodily bits and pieces and all their senses and their presentation reflects a similar audience. Now imagine your presenting to a visually impaired audience. Physically fit people but who all have varying degrees of vision How would you teach navigation to them? I am being alittle disengenuous here. I am a Registered Blind person (not black blind) but who goes to the hills on his own. Believe me there are solutions to most things if you have any residual vision at all. It is a different story if your visual level is No Perception of Light. Best Wishes and continue making these challenging vids. McIntyre.

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

+Synapptic User Hi there and thank you for sharing your own situation and the challenges that go with that. I must admit to not having the foggiest idea as to how I would go about teaching the specific audience that you describe. Given your own experience, how would you advise teaching nav to such an audience?

[@tactical8842]

Great stuff. Micronavigation is a definite must have skill, one that must be regularly practised👍

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

+TacticAL Hi TacticAL and many thanks as always for supporting my channel by taking the time to drop by, watch and comment, it's really appreciated. I'm glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for the positive feedback, cheers! Don't forget to share the video if you think that others in your network might benefit, I'd really appreciate it, cheers! 👍

[@nigelhoward4721]

Excellent teaching and presentation skills. Very useful, many thanks.

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

That's very kind of you to say Nigel, thank you for the feedback. I hope you'll consider subscribing if you'd like to see more from my channel in the future.

[@ewjorgy]

Hi Craig, Personally I think that area you are in is really interesting! Cool! Definitely tricky navigation though. Nice video! Lots of great tips! Take care and all the best from California 🧡

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

Hi ewjorgy and many thanks for taking the time to drop by my channel, watch and comment, it's really appreciated. I'm glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for the positive feedback, cheers! It certainly was an interesting area to navigate around, I shall be back there soon!

[@georgehartwig1865]

Dealing in open barren land could be a challenge. Micro skills is a plus to hone in on.

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

+George Hartwig Hi George Hartwig and many thanks for taking the time to drop by my channel, watch and comment - it's really appreciated.

[@euskryhtbnfvse4i7ehs4hnvf]

Bing Maps has an OS map layer - something you may find super useful for your map imagines.

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

Thanks for sharing that tip, much appreciated 👍. Have a great weekend and don't forget to subscribe 🙂

[@thankmelater1254]

Thank you for the valuable lesson, Sir.

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

+Thank Me Later Hi Thank Me Later and many thanks for taking the time to drop by my channel, watch and comment, it's really appreciated. I'm glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for the positive feedback, cheers! Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already, I'd really appreciate it, cheers! 👍

[@neiljohnston3407]

Barren Bleak Featureless areas ... so, you've Been to Tekapo (Balmoral) Army camp in NZ have you?

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

LOL, sadly not Neil.

[@MrMigido]

Haha👍

[@WyeExplorer]

Good one. I enjoy this and the challenges of reading the land. Take care. Mark

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

+Wye Explorer Hi Wye Explorer and many thanks as always for supporting my channel by taking the time to drop by, watch and comment, it's really appreciated. I'm glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for the positive feedback, cheers! Don't forget to share the video if you think that others in your network might benefit, I'd really appreciate it, cheers! 👍

[@WyeExplorer]

@@TheBushcraftPadawan That's Ok mate. Well presented and clear.

[@jeffnotti9932]

Great Idea! with little to aid in dead reckoning keeping a baring is way more of a challenge. J

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

+Jeff Notti Hi Jeff Notti and many thanks for taking the time to drop by my channel, watch and comment, it's really appreciated.

[@spartantkd1970]

Great video and tips Craig - not sure how the Welsh will take calling their beautiful countryside barren and bleak - only joking. Great to see new content. Kevin.

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

+Kevin Ebbs Hi Kevin Ebbs and many thanks as always for supporting my channel by taking the time to drop by, watch and comment, it's really appreciated. I'm glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for the positive feedback, cheers! Don't forget to share the video if you think that others in your network might benefit, I'd really appreciate it, cheers! 👍

[@doughoffart1247]

Did you find anybody else on the "grassy knoll" Craig? Some people from the US gov might be interested...great video!

[@TheBushcraftPadawan]

Nah, nobody else was there Doug, there was an empty shell casing though... 😉