South By the Moon
In doing research for the western I am working on, I have come across a few interesting tidbits I never encountered before. One of them is using a crescent moon to find South. A great place to learn about this is wilderness-survival-skills.com. Imagine the crescent moon as a pair of bull horns. Now lay a stick across the top of the bull horns. Put an arrow tip on the end pointing down and follow it to the ground. That is approximate south. Unless you are in the southern hemisphere, then it approximate north. Not good enough to give directions by, but good enough…