3 techniques to find your way in the woods

Lost in the woods with no GPS signal? Here are 3 techniques to find your way, with Jacob Karhu.

Transcript

00:00Hi, I'm Jacob Carou

00:02and when you're lost in the woods, it can be hard to find your way back.

00:04So I'm going to show you 3 tips to find your way back.

00:16For the first technique, I'm just going to use

00:18a liquid, a needle

00:20and a leaf.

00:22I'm going to look for a waterproof container

00:24such as a pan,

00:26a bowl, and if I don't have one,

00:28a hole in the stone.

00:50And I place the needle on the leaf.

00:52The tip of the needle points to the north.

01:10For the second tip,

01:12we can observe the moss on the trees.

01:14They prefer darkness and humidity,

01:16so they prefer the north.

01:18But it's not 100% reliable

01:20because these mosses are influenced by other parameters

01:22such as microclimates or

01:24the wind. And here, it shows

01:26the west wind.

01:30And the last technique,

01:32we're going to use the stars.

01:34To do this, we're going to locate the polar star, which points to the north.

01:36To recognize it, we're going to use the big bear,

01:38which has a pan shape,

01:40and we're going to use the last 2 stars,

01:42and repeat this step 5 times to get to the polar star.

01:44Once we've located the north,

01:46it's not enough.

01:48We absolutely need a map

01:50or at least a mental representation

01:52of the region

01:54to find our way.

01:56It's true that today,

01:58we all have GPS phones,

02:00but if everything goes wrong,

02:02we'll be glad to have these tips to find our way.