Keeping on Course in the Woods

When you're walking through the woods it can be difficult sometimes to keep walking in a straight line. It's easy to veer off line just enough to end up walking in a large circle. That's not all bad if you are just out enjoying nature and are familiar with the area, but if you would need to navigate in one direction to stay on course this could pose as a serious problem and result in your getting lost.

One simple way of avoiding this problem is to tie a long length of cordage to yourself so that you have a good length trailing out behind you. (I had about twenty-five feet of para cord.) By looking back behind you frequently, you can see if you are walking in a straight line or not. If the cordage is in a straight line, you know you are walking in a straight line. If the line is curving off, you know you are veering off course. It isn't 100%, but it does help to give you a rough line to keep on course.

You could just hold one end of the cord in

your hand or coil a length about your waist, but I

chose to tie it onto a belt loop so I could have my hands free.

If you look carefully at the center

of the picture you can see about how the cordage

should look trailing behind you.

A Quick Tip For Storing Your Paracord

I hope this post finds everyone doing well.

I just wanted to stop in and give you all a quick tip on how to store a small hank of parcord. This way you don't have to wad it up in ball and then untangle it like I used to do, which can be very frustrating and time consuming.

Start by taking one end of your length of paracord

and looping it around your thumb.

Once you have the first step completed, start winding the

paracord in a figure eight pattern around your

thumb and little finger. Keep doing this until you

have about eight inches left.

Then when you have about eight inches of

paracord left tie it off around the

hank and there you have it.

Have a great week.