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Baby Mirkwood
Some verdant woodland is but a short walk from my house. Within it, one is never far from residential streets but, between the hilliness and the trees and the criss-crossing, meandering trails, it's nonetheless easy to get lost in it for some time. Most trails that do not lead to another fork instead exit into a stranger's back yard. At the moment, I mostly don't know my way around the woodland and I have wondered how to address that. I have not been helped by knowing something of algorithms for navigating mazes that can be mapped onto a plane.
I could use technology. I have a smartphone. More basically, I also have an ancient GPS unit that knows no maps but can keep track of a breadcrumb trail on the LCD screen so, worst case, I should be able to return to my entry point efficiently. I have a magnetic compass. My trusty household inventory tells me that the GPS and compass are in box ten.
It would work well enough to just keep on going in, eventually I'll figure it out. Or, more boring and more certain, to never venture much beyond what I can reverse. It is more fun to risk getting lost so I don't want to make it too easy. My inclination is to take a middle ground: check a topographic map in advance then ongoingly notice my bearing to the sun, those may sufficiently improve the progress of my learning.
I could use technology. I have a smartphone. More basically, I also have an ancient GPS unit that knows no maps but can keep track of a breadcrumb trail on the LCD screen so, worst case, I should be able to return to my entry point efficiently. I have a magnetic compass. My trusty household inventory tells me that the GPS and compass are in box ten.
It would work well enough to just keep on going in, eventually I'll figure it out. Or, more boring and more certain, to never venture much beyond what I can reverse. It is more fun to risk getting lost so I don't want to make it too easy. My inclination is to take a middle ground: check a topographic map in advance then ongoingly notice my bearing to the sun, those may sufficiently improve the progress of my learning.
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