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FINDING YOUR WAY OUT: MAP AND COMPASS BASICS FROM FIVE MILES DEEP IN THE WOODS
The woods have a way of teaching you things the easy way or the hard way. This lesson hit me the hard way. Five miles from my truck, no cell service, no phone battery, thick Mississippi timber, and the one thing I was counting on slipped out of my pocket without a sound. My map was gone. One second it was tucked in my cargo pocket, laminated and ready to use, and the next time I reached for it I found nothing but empty fabric. Somewhere behind me, in five miles of woods, that
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