Now that we have the space and time to argue about weather and how many Top Gun trailers are enough, we can include pole swapping. The Brunhes-Matuyama reversal was 780,000 years ago. The Laschamp event was around 41,000 years ago lasting 250 years. sciencealert.com/earth-s-magnet…
Those of you who still use compasses know what I am talking about.
And I don't mean those Made in India Brunton knockoffs. nagina-in.com/?product=3-bru…
I missed out on the Brunton 125th anniversary transit....complete with beer opener. But I do have their more functional mapping products. brunton.com/collections/pr…
I did a lot of compass work in the Yukon cutting the boundary. The insanity of magnetic declination moving east or west along a straight line boundary was real. So we literally cut a straight line in the forest so pilots could see the border.
Now I know you are going to say "GPS bro" but GPS signals are not controlled by an individual, are not accurate (16 feet to one meter on a good day), requires batteries and clear sky removing much of the thinking and scale essential to bush survival. gps.gov/systems/gps/pe…
The answer is to use both and understand the limitations and benefits of both. But never forget....pole flipping, solar bursts, false readings, magnetic variance, wandering poles and common sense. A lesson for life. setcompass.com/CompassvGPS.htm
oh heck we were just talking about this. They call it the "Adams Transitional Geomagnetic Event." nytimes.com/2021/02/18/sci…

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