to bring: a compass

calsur · Post by **calsur** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 1:01 am

Bob,

That be the puppy.

And I have not really use one for about 10 years but I still know the limitations and the work it takes to be good with a compass.

Thanks for the visual.

Bunnymonkey · Post by **Bunnymonkey** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 1:10 am

I'm looking at the 2004 BRC map. There's a little North arrow. Anyone know if it points to True North or to our friend Magnetic North? Thanks!

calsur · Post by **calsur** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 3:35 am

http://www.burningman.com/blackrockcity ... html#2004C

True north south line is along the 4:30 radial line.

MrChevere · Post by **MrChevere** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 8:51 am

wait till it gets dark. the lasers will guide you.

careacter · Post by **careacter** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:07 pm

I plan to astral project on the playa plane when i sleep so as to keep the movement going. ah.. an adventure around every rotation of our planet. what street are we on again? jk. true sike.

my advice. use your silver cord from your physical body to your subcontious mind
so if you ever get turned around. you can always wake up and start where you started.

or remote viewing. if you are enabled to use your mind in these adverse conditions of extreme circumstance.

what in the hell am i blibber blabbing about?!!

Im totally lost.

Go with the Flow :)

Quickener · Post by **Quickener** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 9:45 am

You know, using a compass is actually very easy. If you want to learn, take 5 minutes on google. There are a lot of good sites out there.

As for Magnetic Declination, it is 15 Degrees East at Black Rock City. Keep that in mind when reading your how to use a compass web page.

nocturnal_steve · Post by **nocturnal_steve** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 2:51 pm

What people don't relize is that there is a strange anomoly in BRC. If you are within 1000 yards of The Man, the compass will point DIRECTLY AT HIM no matter where you are standing. As you get closer, the needle starts to swing counter clockwise. Between 500 - 800 yards the thing will ocillate east to west. Less than 500 yards and it will compleatey rotate in a clockwise direction for 3 revolutions , pause, and rotate counet clockwise for another three, than repeat.

To find your way back to your camp do what I do....my girlfriend puts me on a long retractable leech, like those doggie leeches. If I don't make it back to camp after a day or so, she simple press's a button and reels me back in.

happydragon · Post by **happydragon** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:31 am

I always make sure I have the largest quadrantal spheres I can fit in my pants, that way my compass points the right direction....

BBadger · Post by **BBadger** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:40 am

You dumb shit post-necromancer. The last post was from 2004!

illy dilly · Post by **illy dilly** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 12:06 pm

BBadger wrote:You dumb shit post-necromancer. The last post was from 2004!

And that gets a best line of the day!

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 12:06 pm

Perhaps we should remind our dear readers that the local magnetic declination has changed by appx one degree since 2004.

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomagmodels/s ... eclination

phil · Post by **phil** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 12:40 pm

Speaking of GPS working in a whiteout, yes. I speak from my personal experience. Your mileage will vary.

Last year, I marked our camp and the street/esplanade locations as waypoints, and we were able to get to our street from the playa mid-whiteout after the Burn by following the GPS's route. The GPS maps are excellent, by the way. I don't remember who does the BRC map, but someone else will.

I'm sure we would have made it without the GPS and without much aggravation, but it was nice to have the way pointed out to us.

happydragon · Post by **happydragon** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 3:52 pm

[quote="BBadger"]You dumb shit post-necromancer. The last post was from 2004![/quote]

And I assume the poor bastard is still out there lost in the deep playa somewhere, waiting to get home, unless they picked him up on the moop sweeps.....

to bring: a compass

Bob

2004 BRC Map. Is the "N" arrow TRUE NORTH or MAGNE

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Compass's don't work right in BRC, Nevada