Mountaineers Books Wilderness GPS: A Step-by-Step Guide by Mike Burns and Bob Burns

OVERVIEW

• Simple, focused, and accessible, Wilderness GPS is for anyone using GPS in an outdoor setting
• Trust us: first-timers need help to use their new backcountry GPS devices
• From the authors of the bestselling Wilderness Navigation (65,000 copies sold)

Thousands have learned compass and map skills with the help of father-and-son team Bob and Mike Burns and their straightforward, simply explained book, Wilderness Navigation. Now they’ve written a book for everyone who has bought a backcountry GPS device and found it inexplicably complicated to use (which includes most of us). Wilderness GPS is an easy-to-use guide to get you navigating the outdoors with your handheld GPS device. Wondering how to choose from the variety of gear and computer programs, or how to use a GPS with your map and compass effectively? Wilderness GPS details this and more including:

FEATURES

• How to select your GPS gear
• Getting started and practice routines
• Different coordinate systems: latitude and longitude vs. Universal transverse Mercator (UTM)
• Routefinding in wilderness settings, including common scenarios
• GPS vs. map and compass routefinding
• Using GPS on water
• Using your GPS with a home computer or mobile “smart” device

SPECIFICATIONS

• Pages: 144
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• ISBN: 978-1-59485-762-1
• Published: Sep 19, 2013