Creating Your Own Homemade Compass

[Hrusai]

amen to that jd1.....personally i think the adage of "one is none and two is one" is something everyone should live by.

and yes although we all hope we never lose our compass and dont need to improvise, if caught in a situation where we need to improvise, but dont have the knowledge, we'll kick ourselves for being dismissive, best thing to remember is, you can lose equipment but not knowledge. its always best to have both, if you got lots of fancy equipment but dont know how to use it, your screwed, if you got no equipment but know what to do, you've got a decent chance.

anyway thanks for this, personally i'd always keep a ready magnetised needle in my BOB ...you can always find a bit of floating wood or a puddle of water to use it in