SAS 017 – Judging Terrain

As you descend a terrain, it is difficult to see what is below. Try moving along a spur to see what is below. That far side of a valley will give you an idea of what’s on your side. The ground can fall steeply between a distant slope and a foreground bluff. 

SAS 017 - Judging Terrain

SAS 017 – Judging Terrain

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SAS 129 - Sea Survival, Rescue & Signalling
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SAS 182 - Disaster Strategy & Earthquake
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SAS 184 - Disaster Strategy & Vehicles
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SAS 155 - Diseases
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SAS 047 - Seaweed & Animal Tracking
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SAS 112 - Direction Finding & Weather
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SAS 004 - Survival Kit
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SAS 087 - Fire
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SAS 052 - Animal Tracking
Trapping needs time but might be truly proficient. Trapping may be sheltered and cheap for the trapper, in any case in present day times it has come to be dubious, due to it is claimed cold-bloodedness. To some extent to location the aforementioned concerns, in 1996, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, a conglomeration made up of state and elected fish and untamed life channel experts, ...
SAS 053 - Animal Tracking
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