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Alpine Hiking 2F – Compass

November 26, 2021 Peter Van Geit Leave a comment

Yet another way to navigate across a mountainous terrain is by using a compass or altimeter. One can correlate his…

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Alpine Hiking 2E – Off trail / Contours

November 25, 2021 Peter Van Geit Leave a comment

When you don’t have a map with trails or GPS log there’s another way to make your way across the…

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Alpine Hiking 2D – Terrain Reference

November 24, 2021 Peter Van Geit Leave a comment

When visiting Ladakh you’ll encounter many Europeans navigating with large size Olizane paper maps (scale 1:150K). Olizane maps have been…

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Module 2C – Recorded routes (GPX)

November 23, 2021 Peter Van Geit Leave a comment

Another popular way to navigate is using GPS recordings of hiking routes (GPX format). There are many web sites /…

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Module 2B – Geo-referenced maps (OSM)

November 22, 2021 Peter Van Geit Leave a comment

In this chapter we will familiarize ourselves with mobile navigation and route planning through OSMAnd using Open Street Maps (OSM)…

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Alpine Hiking 2A – Mobile / GPS

November 21, 2021 Peter Van Geit Leave a comment

Congratulations for completion Chapter 1 where we learned about the Geography of the Western Himalayas, Topography (Contours) and various detailed…

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