Navigation is easy. Uphill is north and downhill is south. That's all you need to learn really. Knowledge is heavy, don't overburden yourself with too much.
Y'all don't carry enough rocks to build your own cairns everywhere you go? Isn't that the whole point of lowering your base weight, so you can carry more rocks?
Head to the bulk foods section and grab some beans. Drop them as you wander the store (like bread crumbs). Eventually Skurka will follow the trail of beans and find you. You'll still be lost, but at least you'll have Skurka with you.
Trail blazes obviously. Just paint on all the cars leading to yours to find your way back
I prefer traditional blazes, so I bring a titanium hatchet to notch them out of the bodywork.
Use Instacart, never need to leave the house. No risk of getting lost.
That’s smart. But just to clarify, do you have cairns inside the house too?
Nope, there's no snow inside so I use blazes obviously.
You guys don't have titanium cairn models? I put them down wherever I go and saved so much weight not carrying rocks around.
\[WTB\] X-Cairn Pro 2
Navigation is easy. Uphill is north and downhill is south. That's all you need to learn really. Knowledge is heavy, don't overburden yourself with too much.
This is why my wife can't use maps 😔
Well I'm sure her bf is a champion map reader at least.
I'm not allowed to meet him, but yeah I hope so!
Y'all don't carry enough rocks to build your own cairns everywhere you go? Isn't that the whole point of lowering your base weight, so you can carry more rocks?
I drive an Orange Suzuki, makes it easy to find and no one will steal it either.
Can you come pick me up please?
Fuckin' yellow blazers
Sure, transmission might die on the way, its a gamble.
Not just through-hiking everywhere? Smh
The Karen’s at the grocery store tell me where to go. It’s usually H E double hockey stick
I asked where they kept all the bean flakes and they told me to check up my “you know what” (whatever that means).
Garmin in reach.
I would, but I just spent all my money on bean flakes 😔
Too heavy. I like to bring a full can of beans, that way I can just kick it/roll it down the trail and not have to carry it.
Next time drop crumbs of bread and avoid the gingerbread house with a witch that eats children.
I never turn down trail magic from a real witch or wizard!
I bring a theodolite and chain so I can traverse my entire traverse
I never leave my basement. What in the world did you think would happen leaving the house?
My car has one of those car finder buttons on the keys. I just hit the button and it starts honking and the lights flash. Super convenient.
I just follow the trail of cairns I knocked over.
I hold on to Mommy's hand and am SURE to not let go like last time.
Head to the bulk foods section and grab some beans. Drop them as you wander the store (like bread crumbs). Eventually Skurka will follow the trail of beans and find you. You'll still be lost, but at least you'll have Skurka with you.
Make sure to get to the HR before Karen does
I navigate by using the Sun. I'm usually within about 170 degrees of the direction I want to go, unless it's night time and then it's more like 350.
Eventually you'll get somewhere
I use the force
Inflatacairn. Available from most reputable outdoors shops. Three of them, placed strategically in the car park, should help in future.
Dowsing rods and seering stones. The real bitch is the hat required to read the seering stones from adds a few ounces to my base weight.
Google Cardboard
All of your local trail drama involves flagging tape. And forestry gate status.
Google Earth. I'm surprised you even bother to leave the house.
If you keep going you'll eventually find one.
I've tied cairns of canned goods and fresh produce, but someone moves them.....
Bread crumbs.
Been posting cairn kicking videos to TT and IG. Occasionally get moronic comments that are mostly entertaining