Thread: Map and Compass Night Navigation

Not your fault @Micky Duck I didn't decide until I was there.

Have done a few over the years... the most epic was heading up the pike to lake wilmot, I wanted to get across the upperpike and out to big bay before a forcast deluge... pitch black, lots of mud , a few stumbles and had lost the route. Worked out well and got to the lake as sun was coming up.

A key factor in the decision to do it was knowing it was flat country no bluffs or sinkholes to fall victom to. Had I been in trecherous bluffy slippery country where straying from the path could be perilous then I would avoid it... Suggest you also avoid country where Tanawha are know to stalk the foolhardy who venture out at night... all alone, in the scary dark bush.

Did not make it to Big bay, spent three sodden wet nights camped by the "Dry Awarua River" which wasnt!