Navigation

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Outdoor Skills, Backpacking, Cooking, Navigation, Cycling, and Wilderness Survival Skills. Troop Program Features let you make Navigation a part of your troop program.

Contents Navigation Without a Compass Map and Compass GPS Geocaching Orienteering Skills

In addition to the Navigation resources below, MeritBadge.Org offers a number of other resources including:

• Orienteering Merit badge
• Make Orienteering A Part of Your Troop Program.
• Skills Instruction and Videos: First Aid Skills - Swimming - Outdoor Skills - Wilderness Survival - Backpacking - Cooking - Navigation - Campfires - Clothing - Cycling Skills

Resources

While your handbook is your primary resource, the links below can help you learn Navigation. See the Disclaimers. See the Boy Scout Handbook and Orienteering Merit Badge pamphlet. Make Orienteering a part of your Troop Program.
►  This symbol notes many other lesson videos.

• Related topics: First Aid Skills - Outdoor Skills - Weather Skills - Clothing - Hydration

Navigation Without a Compass

Shortcut: Navigation Without a Compass

►  BSA Video: First Class Find Directions (See notes.)
►  Video: Find the North Star - Video: Find North Without a Compass - Video: How to Use Growing Moss - Video: How to Use Moving Water - Video: How to Use the Sun

Maps

Shortcut: Maps -or- Topographic Maps

►  Video: How to Read a Topographical Map - Video: Map Features - Video: Map & Compass - Video: Maps & Guidebooks

• REI: Maps - REI Video: Map Basics - Free US Geological Survey Topographic Maps - Topozone.com - Google Satellite, Street, and Terrain Maps

Compass

Shortcut: Compass

►  Video: Second Class Compass Skills (See notes.)
►  Videos: Video: How to Use a Compass - Compass & GPS When Hiking - REI Video: Navigation Basics - Map & Compass - REI Video: Parts of a Compass

• REI: Compasses - How a Compass Works - REI: Declination - REI: Staying on Course - REI Video: Map to Compass - REI Video: Compass to Map - REI Video: Triangulation

Lost

Shortcut: Lost

What to do if you become lost:

• REI: If You Become Lost -

►  Videos: Video: Learn What Sun & Bug Protection Gear to Pack When Camping - Finding your Way back when Lost Hiking - What to Do when you Get Lost Hiking - How to Not Get Lost when Hiking

GPS

Shortcut: GPS

►  REI: GPS Glossary - REI: GPS Initialization Process - REI: GPS Receivers - REI Video: GPS - How to Use

Geocaching

Shortcut: Geocaching

• to promote scouting.aspx BSA: Geocaching to Promote Scouting - REI: Geocaching - REI: Geocaching: Expert Q&A►  Video: What is Geocaching?
  

Orienteering Skills

Shortcut: Orienteering Skills

See: Orienteering Merit badge. Make Orienteering A Part of Your Troop Program. ►  BSA Video: First Class Orienteering Course (See notes.)

See also

• Orienteering Merit badge
• Make Orienteering A Part of Your Troop Program.
• Sun Protection - Insect Protection
• First Aid Skills - Outdoor Skills - Weather Skills - Clothing - Hydration - Leave No Trace
• Skills Instruction and Videos: First Aid Skills - Swimming - Outdoor Skills - Wilderness Survival - Backpacking - Cooking - Navigation - Campfires - Clothing - Cycling Skills

• Outdoor Skills

Related awards

Outdoor Skills Awards

Outdoor-related awards Boy Scout ranks: Tenderfoot - Second Class - First Class Boy Scout awards: Firem'n Chit - Totin' Chip - Paul Bunyan Woodsman Boy Scout Merit Badges: Astronomy - Backpacking - Camping - Canoeing - Climbing - Cooking - Cycling - Fire Safety - Hiking - Orienteering - Pioneering - Rowing - Weather - Water Sports - Whitewater - Wilderness Survival Venturing: Outdoor Bronze Award; Ranger Award electives: Backpacking Webelos Activity Badges: Forester - Naturalist - Outdoorsman Cub Scout Belt Loops & Pins: Astronomy - Map and Compass - Weather

Disclaimers

Disclaimer: This information is not intended as a substitute for professional advice, or formal training. Please note that the only materials recommended by the Boy Scouts of America are those found or listed in official BSA materials such as the current Boy Scout Handbook. Navigation recommendations are constantly being revised. Neither MeritBadge.Org, nor its contributors make any recommendations. See the Guide to Safe Scouting.

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