RAW Outdoors Advice - How To Take A Bearing

HOW TO TAKE A BEARING IN THE HILLS!

Welcome to our new feature on our blog. We want to make sure you guys are safe in the hills! This week we look at how to use a compass properly.

1. Place your compass baseplate on the map so the edge, or one of the straight black lines close to the edge, bridges where you are with where you want to be.
2. Keep the compass flat on the map, and twist the bezel so that the lines inside it match up with the map's vertical gridlines.
3. Add three degrees to your bearing to compensate for magnetic variation (magnetic variation - when your taking a bearing remember to add or subtract three degrees! Grid = Map, Mag = Land so "From grid to mag add: from mag to grid, get rid."
4. Turn until the red compass arrow sits in the middle of the wide red arrow in the bezel. Walk in the direction of the black arrow on the compass baseplate.

There you go nice and easy and it'll keep you safe and sound in the hills!

Remember to check out our great selection of Silva compasses at www.rawoutdoors.co.uk