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Japanese team finds ‘yeti footprints’ in Nepal

A team of Japanese adventurers say they have discovered footprints they believe were made by the legendary yeti said to roam the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet. “The footprints were about 20 centimetres (eight inches) long and looked like a human’s,” Yoshiteru Takahashi, the leader of the Yeti Project Nepal, told AFP in Kathmandu [...]

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23Oct2008 | Aran Strider | 0 comments | Continued
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Learn to Navigate for Free

Would you like to learn to navigate, anywhere, using a map and compass?
During these dark Winter months, when the wind is howling and the rain is horizontal, some lucky souls will be learning to find their way around some of the most challenging terrain in Britain.
I should, I know nail you all down and specify [...]

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19Oct2008 | Aran Strider | 2 comments | Continued
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Navigation Quicktips - Mapping software

I use mapping software.
There I said it. Not only do i use “paper” maps(actually they are plastic!) but I also use MemoryMap mapping software. It consists of a reader - the software - and maps that are available on licence through MemoryMap.
The great advantage to using mapping software is that you can print off parts [...]

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7Oct2008 | Aran Strider | 0 comments | Continued
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Navigation QuickTips - the Night Sky

Ever wanted to navigate the globe using nothing but the night sky? This step-by-step guide introduces you to a few star-gazing basics for locating several constellations as well as finding north with Polaris. You won’t be ready to head out to the high seas without a compass when you finish the guide, but you will [...]

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25Sep2008 | Aran Strider | 0 comments | Continued
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Navigation - Quick tips

The more we, as adventurers into the wilder places of the world, understand about our physical environment, the easier it becomes to navigate amid them. Understanding how the environment was created in the first place makes it much easier to read the information the cartographer is trying to convey, the shapes on the map become [...]

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30May2008 | Aran Strider | 0 comments | Continued
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Learn to Navigate - Part 1 - Map Interpretation

Of all the skills that you need in the outdoors, whether it be in the mountains or the wilderness, knowing where you are, accurately, at any one time is the most fundamental and it all starts with being able to interpret the map.
Maps are just like paintings, full of information that can change your life, [...]

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19May2008 | Aran Strider | 1 comment | Continued
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