04-05-2006, 14:47
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Bladesmith to the Quiet Professionals
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About all our rivers in Oregon run the wrong way, many to the left.
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04-05-2006, 14:47
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finding directions
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I'll try the moon trick.... as soon as the clouds clear here.
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Okay, I'll give you that one.
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I live in Nebraska. We don't have that many trees, so it kind of works here. I wouldn't trust it though.
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If you're lost and find a river, you'd better know where you are at that point!  (If not follow the river down-stream, almost rivers lead to civilization.) Unless you're trying to avoid civilization. |
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04-05-2006, 15:00
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I live in Nebraska. We don't have that many trees, so it kind of works here. I wouldn't trust it though.
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It would not work in many places I've been, big swamps, jungles, or temperate rain forests. I'd never use it as a direction guide.
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04-05-2006, 15:11
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About all our rivers in Oregon run the wrong way, many to the left.
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the Rhine doesn't conform either...
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04-05-2006, 15:42
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The other side
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About all our rivers in Oregon run the wrong way, many to the left.
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Yeah, but if you were on the other side they would be running to the right 
Did ya hear about the two blonds. They were on both sides of a river. One blond shouted over to the other "How do I get to the other side?". The other one shouted back "You already are."
OK I'll fade away now.
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04-05-2006, 15:58
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Finding North
Well, if all else fails, use the excuse a new 2LTused in IOBC many years ago. When told he could find his butt with both hands if it was a map by the land nav cadre, the 2d LT replied " The terrain shifted and my compass got magnetized". he was serious too.
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04-06-2006, 08:05
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Land Nav
As a former shavetail and SFOC graduate although a staff puke, I eventually learned a foolproof way to determine where I was under any conditions.
Put your right arm out to your side (pointing away for you Rangers) and put your left are directly out in front of you (also pointing away for you Marines), where they meet is exactly where you are.
Forgive Me Colonel.
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04-06-2006, 08:09
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You cannot spell 'lost' without the "LT"
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04-07-2006, 02:09
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Just feel it..........
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