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An old guide once told me to always carry 3 compasses. One as my own favorite primarry, a secondary in case something happens to the...

How about a parachute? That level of technology screams “PARACHUTE!”

A wet compass is almost all I have as far as instruments go. I can't even see that when I have a passenger up front.

Well, while this pilot always carries not one, but two compasses on canoe trips, the FAA and aircraft manufactures actually do consider...

I'll see your obsolescence and raise you one... Like a fine mechanical watch, it's a pleasure to hold and use. In fact, Minerva used to...

It’s accurate enough for my needs. Pretty cheap. Not KE quality, for sure. I generally measure multiple times and average the...

This is Dad's compass set, purchased when he was in college in the late 1940s. I used it during the first part of my own engineering...

Here’s one I still use, mostly for distances on irregular features (trails, rivers, etc). It is only obsolete if you’re into GPS...

I’ve read many books with my candle lantern hanging overhead. Tried the headlamp a few trips. Sleep better with the candle.

I’m still, stubbornly, map and compass. I learned as a Boy Scout, reinforced by Voyager school in the ADKs, and now teach it to current...

Time flies like an arrow. But fruit flies like a banana. :giggle:

Not photos of my father's originals . . . But when I was 12 in 1956, I was communicating with all of you at 5 WPM with this device...

I remember using something like the above instrument in a basic cartography class. Somewhere in the basement I should have some of the...

So here's the manual... And how it sets up... And an example of how it works... Using this planimeter, which measures one square...

I don't know anything obsolete about the old camp gear. Our power was out twice this past week. Pulled out the Coleman stove and...