1) You’re looking at the land, and your map, but it’s still easy to get turned around. First, orient your map properly to True North (TN). Then you can correlate paper landmarks to real ones. 2) ...

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Finding the direction between one point and another is called taking a bearing. Say you want to find the bearing from Owl Pond to Cherry Knoll (left). Place the compass on the map with the long side ...