Bears and other Scary animals

Typing in an address into a compass will fail, Shirley.

 

In the city you could just ask somebody. That's how we did it in the old days. If they said they didn't know, we'd just lash them with our buggy whip.

 

We get sun all bloody year round here...dry sun...then wet sun...but in the southern hemispehere we also have the Southern Cross...its on our flag...some bloke found the coast of Australia following that at night...

 

I meant that since the sun doesn't go east to west you can't really orient yourself by using it. In mid latitudes you know which way east is all morning and west all afternoon so if you know one direction, you know the other three. It doesn't work like that here.

 

There is no discussion in baby killing heat, mid town. Screaming maybe. Honest, one does not want to be stuck in Calgary rush hour-(it was the Stampede). Everybody is like: "Ooh, Canadians, they so nice!" - MmmmHmm. If you could only hear...Trust also, one does not want to work for minimum wage. So...i exist in permanent ...3rd level hades?

 

Actually, You should be able to get some help, with the sun, even during midsummer. Around Midwinter, past the Arctic Circle, it would be more problematic, but then you shouldn't really be outside, unless you've got a serious hankering for frostbite.

Past the tropics (i.e. Tropic of Cancer or the Tropic of Capricorn) you can at least ascertain the general direction South alternatively North, if you can observe the Sun.

And in the Southern Hemisphere, the Southern Cross is a great aid.

 

I suppose you could draw up a chart, like 3AM rising sun is NNE, 4AM sun is NE, 5AM sun is ENE, etc, but you'd need a compass and a watch to make those charts and a watch to use the charts. A compass is a lot more useful than a watch in the wild, so I'd leave the watch and take the compass. And here, in coastal Alaska, it rains so much you can't see the damned sun most of the time anyway.

 

Pa sent me a not accurate story about a huge bear- twisted by the net. Then he sent a bit on an exploding GPS (he cares) :
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/e/GPS-explodes.htm

 

See? I was right all along! A GPS is a ticking time bomb that will either go dead at the worst possible moment or explode.

 

"I was right all along!".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY6wwAhvirY

 

Oi...Went to buy a newer GPS. Which got me searching. Peeps think now GPS units will go the way of the Dodo. Now they say GPS chip in a tablet will do fine...Your mission: go to a Bestbuy/ Futureshop etc. Locate a store employee. Do not throttle them as they spew crap about their unknowingness. Dudes don't know ****. Maybe the nerd, with 10 people trailing him.

You may have the benefit of my all day search... Garmin has a series that allows multiple stops, and will organize them if you ask nice. LMT on the end of product # means free lifetime maps(mmmhmm) with traffic updates. Do not try to find a Garmin site that tells you all their products and specs... Do not ask an employee if any of their tablets are GPS assisted or unassisted. Do not ask if the Samsung Tab 3 uses a Soviet satelite to give maps/direction, or if it is an LTE device...My carrier has a plan for the tablet, along with current subscription: 5$ min/ 10$ max, which piggybacks off of the existing plan.

Don't want to spend 230 for a GPS when a 200 tablet will do all that and a bag of chips.

 

Currently doing the rounds.
Possibly the most irritating bear encounter ever put to film...

http://offgridquest.com/wildlife/bear-comes-for-a-visit-she-pepper-sprays

I'd eat her f-ing canoe too, especially after being Pepper sprayed.
I suspect 'Oh look, a bear is eating my boat and not me. I shall retire to the cabin and hope it goes away' would be my response.
(Failing some sort of metal tube device, maybe with a chamber and some powder to make a really loud and less annoying sound into the air. Something packed in advance when entering country where such splendid beasts may be encountered. I wonder if they make such things...)



Edit:
And someone else points this out to me.
https://www.gofundme.com/bs5ecf7s
Many of the comments are quite amusing.

 

Some people should just take the guided tour... Bears are like dogs, with a touch of racoon thrown in. Giving them something to gnaw on and dismantle and that's just what they'll do.

On a related note from earlier in this thread (see link below). I need a new compass and saw this on Ebay - a WWII airman's survival compass. They usually go for about $100 to $150, but for some reason this one didn't get noticed and I snapped it up cheap. They were made be Wittnauer/Longines and are of very high quality.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WWII-Military-Compass-original-/201527076173?

 

Hopefully, the market for fake war artifacts didn't apply to ww2 compasses.
Fake 'Nam zippo's are an example of fraud.
Some real one's?
http://silodrome.com/zippos-vietnam/

 

I got it in the mail today. It would cost more to fake a compass like this than it would be worth. It's pretty well made. Nickel over brass and when you close it, a lever locks the arrow in place so it isn't spinning around - to save wear and tear I guess. This one will be to use, not to put in a collection.


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Theres enough iron in a male human's brain to tell (9 times out of ten) which way is North...anyone know that?

 

Do you nail an arrow into the top of your head?

 

hehe...maybe in Canada...
The same pull on the arrow pulls on the iron in our brains...Fom memory, theres a shite load of iron around the upper north of the Earth, as im sure you are aware...there is so much that it out pulls ALL the iron in the Earth giving a bias that can be detected by the little arrow...and our brains...We men folk ALWAYS know where we are going...don't we?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lmw0d6S6jU