Quiz 4: Navigation & Route Planning

Why does BSE 101 go beyond simply owning a paper map?

Maps are obsolete

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Because owning a map and navigating with it under stress, at night, off your line, are very different skills

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Because GPS is better

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Because maps are heavy

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What do closely spaced contour lines on a topographic map indicate?

Water

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Steep terrain

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A road

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Low risk

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What is ‘terrain association’?

Memorizing road names

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Continuously matching the ground to the map as you move so you always know roughly where you are

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Following GPS

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Counting steps only

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What is a ‘catching feature’ in navigation?

A trap

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A known feature beyond your target that tells you if you’ve gone too far

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A water filter

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A type of compass

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What makes an ‘alternate’ route a real alternate?

It rejoins the primary right after one chokepoint

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It is a genuinely different path that solves the actual failure, not one that rejoins after a single chokepoint

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It is shorter

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It uses highways

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What belongs in a route book’s hazard overlay?

Only restaurants

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Flood zones, industrial/chemical-risk sites, high-friction areas, and chokepoints to route around

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Only your home

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Tourist attractions

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What is a ‘cache’ and how does it help?

A type of map

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Pre-positioned supplies at a secure point that let you carry less and resupply mid-movement

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A navigation app

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A kind of compass

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Why should route times be based on the 3–10 mile/day reality rather than pace math?

To make the plan look longer

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Because naive pace math underestimates a real multi-day movement and leaves you stranded

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To impress an instructor

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Because maps require it

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What is the purpose of marking ‘decision points’ in the route book?

Decoration

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So the choice between primary and alternate is pre-thought rather than made while exhausted

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To mark water only

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To mark the finish

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Why does the course require actually walking a segment of your route?

To get exercise

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Because a route you’ve walked is one you trust; a paper-only route is just a hypothesis

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To test your shoes’ brand

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Because GPS requires it

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