One of the world’s most iconic long-distance hiking trails for hiking enthusiasts is the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). It ...

Fantasy map cartography hikes are a new trend combining outdoor adventure with artistic imagination. Participants explore and ...

Here are seven key factors to consider when navigating in winter. For detail each, click the links or scroll down the guide.

Learn to Use a Map and Compass A topographic map and a compass are your best friends when it comes to navigating through ...

For those who can’t navigate their way out of a box, to amateur explorers, the Medicine Hat Interpretive Program is looking to teach residents the basics of maps. “This free program is for those who ...

My wife and I enjoy hiking off trail and for our bushwhacking adventures, we use a paper topographic map, a compass and a handheld GPSR.

Scientists have found an elusive third form of magnetism that could help solve a longstanding puzzle about superconductors.

Therefore, we might think of using the Bible as our moral compass as reading a manual. We open the book, we find what looks like the right instructions, we follow them exactly. However, the Bible ...

Among the objects going up for auction is the compass used by Captain Durham at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The 16-point compass dates back to the early 19th century and is inscribed with the ...

The standardization of names on a map has always held some importance in ensuring everyone reading the map around the world understood what they were looking at. Many countries that don't use ...