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The Collection begins with the Water Resilience Field Manual and a small number of field tools we genuinely recommend. If you’re looking for free material, start with The Library.
The Water Resilience Field Manual
A 43-page household water manual covering storage, treatment limits, sanitation, redundancy, short practice drills, and printable worksheets.
FIELD TOOLS · NAVIGATION
A Compass That Still Makes Sense
When you learn navigation with a paper map, a compass does something a phone does not: it makes you connect the map, the terrain, and direction for yourself. That is useful even if you normally travel with GPS.
The Suunto MC-2 is a good example of that kind of tool. The mirror makes it easier to sight a bearing carefully, the declination adjustment matters when you are working between map north and magnetic north, and the clinometer adds a simple way to read slope. None of that is complicated once you have practiced it a few times, but it does make the compass more useful than a basic direction-only model.
Paper-map navigation is useful because it makes the underlying work visible. Taking a bearing, orienting a topo map, and comparing the map with the terrain turns position-finding into a skill you can check rather than a result you simply accept from a screen.
If you use U.S. topographic maps, look for the version labeled MC-2 G USGS. That is the model linked here. Its 1:24,000 and 1:50,000 scales are the useful clue that you are looking at the U.S.-map version rather than the metric-only MC-2 G.
View the MC-2 G USGS at Suunto →
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