After a lengthy hiatus, the Knights reconvened for their weekly meeting Tuesday night to prepare for their upcoming expedition to Mount Townsend. The plan is to drive until the snow gets too deep for the intrepid Subaru, and then to proceed by snowshoe to the trailhead. Once there, the Knights will be practicing their new orienteering skills.
Some helpful tips from the army manual include distances you should keep from some common objects when using a compass to prevent interference:
High-tension power lines .................................. 55 meters.
Field gun, truck, or tank ................................... 18 meters.
Telephone wires & barbed wire ....................... 10 meters.
Machine gun ........................................................ 2 meters.
Steel helmet or rifle ............................................ 1/2 meter.
Perhaps its time to find a civilian manual. I haven’t run across too many tanks or machine guns in my scrambling of late.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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