Saturday 26 October 2013

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Reciprocal Bearings

Today we practiced reciprocal bearings.
A reciprocal bearing is the opposite bearing to the one you are on. i.e South is a reciprocal bearing of North and East is a reciprocal bearing of West. In terms of bearings, reciprocal bearings always have a difference of 180 degrees to the original bearing.
 Today, we went to the wood and headed off on a bearing away from our starting point, we then made sure I was suitably lost, then it was my task to find my way back to the starting point by following a reciprocal bearing.

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