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1 hr/week Beginner outdoors navigation skills geography

Learn to read a topographic map

Contour lines become landscapes. Cliffs. Valleys. Saddles. The paper starts to look like the earth.

Topo literacy changes how you see terrain. You start predicting what's around the bend before you get there.

USGS National Map viewer · Be Expert with Map and Compass (Kjellstrom) · CalTopo app

Perfect for: hikers, data thinkers, people who want to feel less lost

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