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Finding north without a compass email template

A navigation skill with the method that actually works.

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Message anatomy

A useful starting point, with the important parts named.

The moss-on-the-north-side idea is durable folklore and useless in practice. Two genuine methods are almost as easy and both work.

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Castle Bytham Compass
Subject
Forget moss. Use a watch or the stars
Preheader
Moss grows wherever it is damp, which is everywhere.

Skills guide

Moss does not indicate north, and two other methods do

The moss-on-the-north-side idea is durable folklore and useless in practice. Two genuine methods are almost as easy and both work.

The shadow stick

Mark a stick's shadow tip, wait fifteen minutes, mark again. The line between the two marks runs roughly west to east.

The night sky

Find the Plough, follow the two end stars five times their separation, and that is the pole star. Within about a degree of true north.

Why not moss

Moss grows where it is damp and shaded, which depends on local shelter far more than aspect. On a north-facing slope it is everywhere.

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