Survival - Sun compass and direction finding.

[@basszack]

if you don't like this guy or feel his info is lacking STOP WATCHING!!! if it doesn't work make a video reply and show where he went wrong so all of us can learn.

[@BeachOp1]

The magnetic declination (also known as grid magnetic angle in military circles, if the grid is aligned to true north) at any point on the Earth is the angle between the local magnetic field -- the direction the north end of a compass points -- and true north. The declination is positive when the magnetic north is east of true north. The term magnetic variation is equivalent, and is more often used in aeronautical and other forms of navigation. Hope this helps. :)

[@Kamoyaker]

This is a really good video. Thanks for the detail.

[@0x0221]

Cool vid, thanks!

[@dystopiansage]

Awesome!

[@arturoarias6930]

Muy bien me sirve mucho tu informacio gracias

[@VIPERITE16]

THE ORIGINAL MOUNTAIN MAN :D Nice Vid, Very Interesting

[@cpargariu]

@ThoroughBredCanadian The shadow always moves towards east, so as Ron says, the first shadow is towards west and the last shadow is towards east.

[@devde157]

o cara manja de tudo msm rsrsrs

[@0xsuperman]

Does it work in places close to N and S poles?

[@galluer]

This video would have been more useful with mention of the season and latitude. Like, August 21st and Miami.

[@cpargariu]

@bazzoo78 This guy forgot more about survival than you will ever learn, so be respectful!

[@dlwatib]

If you know what time it is and you know where the sun is, you already have a better idea of which way is north than these crude methods. I'm surprised that anyone calling himself a woodsman would recommend such inaccurate methods. The only thing he got right is that when the shadow is shortest, it's true noon (1 pm daylight time) and the shadow points true north. A stick inclined toward the sun could end up pointing west, south, or east, and a shadow from such an inclined stick could point northeast, east or southeast later in the day. The tip of a shadow from a vertical stick traces a hyperbola on a level plane, not a straight east-west line. You could get wildly inaccurate results depending on what time of day you do these methods. This video is presenting false information that could get someone very lost if they rely on it. To get a true east-west line using sticks and markers and such, you need to mark the tip of a shadow where it meets an arc before noon, and again after noon. From the vertical stick to the center of the east-west line you can mark out a true north-south line.