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good morning campers
and adults welcome to the north face
base camp summer camp my name is corey
woltering
and i am a trail and ultra runner for
the north face
over the past few years i have been able
to compete at some really cool races
like
western states 100 ultra trail mount
fuji
and eco challenge fiji which included
a lot of map reading and orienteering
skills
so today i'll be teaching map 101
and a slight bit of orienteering
here we go a good map should include
five different things the first thing
being a title
i mean you need to know what you're
trying to make a map of right or you
would like
to know what you're going to read so
yeah just a simple title
for this it could be something as base
camp 2020
the next thing a map should include
would be directions
there are two different ways that you'll
see it on a map sometimes it's just an
arrow that points north
and that's saying okay this is true
north true north
means that the map is oriented to point
towards the north pole
the second way you may see it would be
with a compass rose
a compass rose includes north south east
and west
but would still be oriented towards the
north pole the reason that this is
important
is because it if you're not super
familiar with how the directions work
this kind of explains a little bit
better so north
south east and west but the way it works
is never eat soggy waffles
that's a great way to remember it so
compass roses are awesome
and they just give you a little bit more
intermediate direction in there
another great thing to remember about
the compass is that the sun always rises
in the east
and sets in the west the next thing a
map should include would be
a legend so a legend will have symbols
and lines on it to show you like this
might be the trail you're on
or this might be a road or this could be
a parking area
or there are restrooms or there there's
water
but basically it's just so that you know
that there are
facilities out there or maybe there
aren't
same thing if you're in a city it could
be a little bit different where it says
parking area or city park or water
fountain
but either way it's great to have that
another good thing it would be
a scale a scale is how you know how far
it is
from one point on the map to another in
the united states
our scales are done to a one to twenty
five a thousand
which means one centimeter on the map
is equal to point two five kilometers in
real time and the last thing it should
include would be
labels i mean wouldn't you wanna know if
there's supposed to be a river here
or a mountain here or maybe a high point
over there
so those are the five great things that
a map should include all right so let's
make a map
all we need is some graph paper
some markers and a pen
and the first thing we're going to do is
measure
our area so you guys can do this in your
living room
in your bedroom whatever you feel
comfortable doing i'm going to use our
back patio
so as i was saying earlier normally it'd
be
one centimeter equals 0.25 of a
kilometer
but to make this really simple we're
gonna go one footstep
is equal to one square on the graph
paper so here i go
i'm going to measure the back patio
perfect so the patio is 30 by 13.
so i will go ahead and make a grid on
my paper
the next thing i'd like to do is figure
out how big each of the objects on the
patio are
so to figure out the picnic table i will
start
by counting in how many steps it is from
the side
so two and then here i go
about six
about five awesome so we'd have a
six by four six by five picnic table
so i will write that down
then i'll check out the table for square
12
i would count in one two
three four steps in but i'm going to
back up a little bit
and then count this way so
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six and then
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four so we have a six by four and we had
plot that on here as well
i forgot to mention that you want to
make sure you have a compass rose
and orient your map to be true north
so i will add one right
here now that we have our grid and we
have
uh coordinates we should probably plot
them
so this was
the picnic table
this was the table
this is the small table
and this was the fire pit
and the big table
had two chairs of it that were two by
two
small table and one
and the fire pit had one
and now is the fun part we get to color
things in
so our picnic table will say that's
red the two tables will color those blue
and the fire pit seems like it wants to
be
orange from there
we can also color in the chairs that
were with it
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and the little ground lamps
now there are two last things that every
good
map should have so the first would be a
legend
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and a scale
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and remember with this scale
one square equals one
foot finally you should also have a
title
for your map so my map will be called
my patio
done one of the great apps that i love
to use when i'm out exploring the trails
is called all trails boom there it is
all trails
has many different trail systems loaded
onto it
and it is a free app so campers
ask your guardian if you are allowed to
download it for your next adventure
but basically you can find almost any
trail out there
and it will come with pre-loaded maps
and you can use them to navigate while
you're out there
just in case you may not have a paper
map or you've just never been there
before
it's really cool because there has you
know a start and finish point
and then it also has more information
about people that have done the trail
before
whether it's you know they did it
yesterday or two years ago
and it can tell you trail conditions or
things you may need to watch out for it
or if there is water if there's not
water
so it's really handy to have boom
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