Books on navigation with maps, compass and GPS receivers.

The GPS Guide To Western Gem Trails

Compiled by a veteran rockhound, this handy supplemental GPS guide directs you to the best collection sites found in the Gem Trails books series as well as other popular rockhounding guides. Covers the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Includes the lat/lon coordinates of each site along with the Delorme map page number, section/township/range information, and the name of the USGS 7 ½ minute quadrangle for each site. This is a 6" x 9" soft cover by David Kelty, with 294 pages.
W-5207 $19.95

GPS Made Easy: Second Edition

GPS Made Easy tells you all you need to know about using hand-held GPS receivers as a tool for accurate navigation in the outdoors. It explains how GPS works, describes the features of GPS receivers, and gives practical examples of how to use GPS receivers in a variety of outdoor situation. The second edition is about twice as large as the first edition and adds a lot of new information. Lawrence Lathem, 208 pages.

W-5870 $15.95

Staying Found

The complete map and compass handbook. Orienting, reading topographic maps, following bearings, magnetic declination, and using nature as a guide. Includes a section on coping if you are really lost and one on teaching kids to "stay found". June Fleming, 160 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, soft cover.

W-5871 $12.95

Wilderness Navigation: Finding Your Way With Map, Compass, Altimeter, & GPS

This guide makes getting there and back easy. It embodies the essence of wilderness navigation, thoroughly covered, simply described. Nicely illustrated this dandy guide book covers all the basics of wilderness navigation with sections on all the key tools and techniques, how to read and use maps, easy compass techniques, accurate use of clinometers and altimeters, and practical GPS receiver techniques. Bob and Mike Burns, 126 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, soft cover.
W-6021 $12.95