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Compass/GPS: Do you know how to read a
map or use your compass/GPS to their full capabilities? If not, you
better learn before you head out. You'll be on your own out there and
it's easy to get off course. It should also be easy to get back on
course. Remember maps, compass' and GPS units can lead you to safety if
you know how to read them, but are utterly useless of you don't. Learn
how to take bearings, calculate declination, store waypoints, understand
gridlines and travel using your maps as a guide. Personally I don't
rely on my GPS but I carry it as a backup. Electronics can fail and
batteries die. Compass' work 100% of the time. Learn how to use them!
It could save your life.
Maps: Make sure you have all maps or section sheets of the
area you're preparing to travel. Mark potential trouble areas, rapids,
portages and potential exit points should trouble arise. Study your
maps and you won't be surprised by events coming up ahead of you.
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"Thousands
of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are
beginning to find out that going to the mountain is
going home; that wildness is necessity; that
mountain parks and reservations are useful not only
as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as
fountains of life".
John Muir
"We abuse land
because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
When we see land as a community to which we belong,
we may begin to use it with love and respect".
Aldo Leopold
"I have never
found a companion that was so companionable as
solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when
we go abroad among men than when we stay in our
chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone,
let him be where he will".
Henry David
Thoreau
Downloads
Solo
Trip Plan
(PDF)
Solo
First Aid List
(PDF)
Solo
Food List
(PDF)
Solo
Equipment List
(PDF)
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