loose descent down the other side, the trail vanished. I checked the topo map, and compared our location to a GPX track of the trail. We had indeed missed a sudden zigzag in the track. We cut back through the brushy desert, but upon crossing the GPX track several times, there ...
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue (PBCFR) said its units were dispatched to the scene at mile marker 63, near the 6th Avenue N exit, at around 12:15 a.m. Firefighters learned that a semi-truck had collided with a wall, causin...
6. Making sure that the direction of travel arrow remains pointed in the general direction of the landmark (6a), rotate the entire baseplate until the orienting lines are running north/south (6b) and the north marker on the bezel is pointing to north on the map (6c). 7. Now you can ...
Once you have a map on hand to guide you, it should be easier to locate the marker locations for your property. If you can locate any monuments, landmarks or other markers, they should be helpful in triangulating your location. Markers can be brass discs, metal tags on concrete, iron p...
Step 1: Find the bearing Let’s plot a course on this Washington State map from the campground on top of Old Dominion Mountain to a nearby spring. At this location, the magnetic variation is 15 degrees East, which means True North is at 345 degrees. I double check that my map is corr...
On race day, you probably won’t want to use your running app; it drains battery, and you’ll be out there a long time. Instead, you can pace yourself by wearing a basic stopwatch and comparing your time at each mile marker with pre-calculated split times. Sound complicated? It’s ...
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one inch on the map equals one mile on land. On a larger scale 1:24,000 USGS quadrangle map, as referenced in the photo above, one inch on the map equals 2,000 feet on the ground. This is important when you’re out in the field because it places context to distances on the map...
s passive alarm is only triggered when a door or trunk/front trunk is opened while the car is locked. Tesla owners are also known to be affluent, chances are they have left some sort of valuable in the vehicle. In short, Teslas are an easy target to break into, and to find ...
It took investigators nearly two years to find the black box from Air France Flight 447, 447 which crashed on June 1, 2009, into the South Atlantic. The box had not only survived impact, but also being submerged under nearly 13,000 feet of salty, corrosive seawater. In the end, the ...