Navigating with a Suunto A-10 plate compass

Nothing beats navigating with a Suunto A-10 plate compass.
This is an easy-to-use base compass, also called a plate compass.
The compass is very robust and does not break down immediately at the first fall.
So the Suunto A-10 can definitely take a beating.
On a winter trip Lapland or to Sweden, for example, a compass is indispensable.

Suunto’s compass hangs delightfully around the neck

Ideally, that’s navigating with a Suunto A-10 plate compass.
The compass hangs delightfully around the neck.
One advantage is that you can also easily grab the compass with gloves and consult it
The compass rose is very easy to turn, even just when wearing the indispensable gloves in the cold.
If you are wise, prepare yourself well for the trip to the Northern Lights or your vacation in Sweden or Greenland: then you also immediately attach whistle around your neck and to the compass.
That whistle is easy to alert people nearby, for example.
With a compass and a whistle around your neck, you’ll get by just fine under any conditions.

Reading compass course in a whiteout on Greenland

Seeing the Northern Lights in Sweden – use your compass

The compass carry cord counts as a convenient snap lock carry cord and is ideal for frequent and even daily use.
During a Northern Lights trip, you can extremely easily detach the compass from the carrying cord to place the compass on the map.
The design of the compass is considered very simple and equally robust.
Not for nothing is the Suunto A-10 considered one of the most widely used compasses.
The great thing is that both beginners and experienced travelers can more than manage it during winter expeditions.

The needle of the compass is made of very high quality steel

The needle of the compass then, by no means an unimportant part of this compass.
The needle in this case is made of very high quality steel.
The Suunto A-10 is especially suitable for the Northern Hemisphere and weighs only 30 grams.
Obviously, when you go on an expedition, you always carry a compass with you.
If you have to choose, then the Suunto A-10 is simply an ideal compass.
It wears light, works easily and even with gloves on you can use the plate compass just fine.

Navigating the Hardangervidda in Norway

Suunto A-10 has a very long service life

The Suunto A-10 is so rugged that it has a very long service life as a result.
So that makes investing in this compass really worthwhile.
The compass has a centimeter scale and is filled with liquid.
There is a fixed declination scale and a very high-quality bearing.
You won’t have to worry about temperature either with this compass.
It works fine at temperatures around 30 degrees and plus 60 degrees Celsius.
This allows the compass to present excellent qualifications.
An additional advantage is that this compass is also great value for money.

Below you can read the transcript of the video recorded by Henk-Jan Geel about the expedition materials.

‘I want to tell you something about the compass I use during my arctic expeditions.
This is the compass, it’s a fairly simple base compass a plate compass and the reason for me to choose this compass is because it’s actually a very robust one.
It can be dropped, it can take a beating, there are few parts on it that can break, and the last thing I want is when my stuff breaks.
So this compass I use on arctic expeditions.
It actually hangs around my neck all day and the moment I need it I can easily grab it even with gloves on and look at my compass.
I can easily turn the compass rose even with gloves on and often for long distances I put that compass rose in once.
I look to see if the right direction is going determine my position and I go the right way.
Well what else hangs on a whistle should I want to get the attention of people walking in front of me I can blow loudly with the whistle and just hope they look back.
When the wind is against Is quite difficult to make the signal go far, but these two things that hang around my neck all day’