 clipping your compass, maps and gps to you with cord and a mini-krab makes losing them a lot, lot harder. shock cord loops on your pack straps makes stowing them easy.
wrist loops on gloves are easy to fit.
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 Yep, and you can wear a hooded fleece to render your headgear unloseable as well.
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 clipping your compass, maps and gps to you with cord and a mini-krab makes losing them a lot, lot harder It does, but it also makes getting tangled up in all sorts of bits of cord a lot easier...
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 clipping your compass, maps and gps to you with cord .... One of my perverse pleasures is seeing ramblers being strangled or slapped by their mapcases. 
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"but it also makes getting tangled up in all sorts of bits of cord a lot easier..." lol. are you sure you should be allowed out on your own?
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 From recent experience, I'm going to make sure that I keep my phone in a pocket as close to my body as possible. In cold, in rucksack=dead battery.
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 On my ML course my instructor picked up my compass that I had dropped. Fortunately I had a spare so I got that out as he didn't let me know he had it. At the end of the day I explained that I had 2 spares, one in my coat pocket and one in the bottom of my rucksack. I also have a compass tattoo and I think that showing it to the instructor helped me pass 
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Why? Where is your compass tattoo?!  Idiot-proof gloves with wrist loops are very good. On our SARDA winter week in Scotland a fortnight ago, I was regularly spiking the gloves of an inexperienced member in our group with walking poles or crampons to stop them flying away when she just put them on the snow when she took them off.
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aahh, I'm not telling. It's very useful though as it means my hubby knows which way is up 
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 Oh yes, MK, I put the loops on my lovely Buffalo pile mitts - and then had to face the "did your mummy put a clean hanky in your pocket as well?" brigade. Still, I have the gloves and they can blow on their fingers. Everything that goes in the side pockets is attached to my bag in some way, more as a nod to my failing memory than anything else.At my age dropping stuff on the move is bad enough, in fact anything that involves moving from the upright position, but dropping stuff in the wind may involve breaking into a trot as well. I'm sticking with the loops.
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I'd take occasional entanglement over no map/compass every time... But if you have a pack with side pockets (OMM, Inov8, Osprey - most makes doing this now), you can put the compass in one of these (as your pack - more than yer kecks or tops - is always going to be on top) then lark's foot or krab to one of the straps. Much less chance of tangling then...
With maps, you can use streetmap/bing (+ some paint or similar editing) to print-off A4ish bits, then stick in a laminate/folder think and stick in the opposite pack pocket (assuming your're a righty, you probably want map in right and compass in left) doing the same lark's foot/krab trick to the pack straps... (Obviously, with a full-sized map you're going to have to compromise and work out some attachment for jacket pockets or similar.)
Works for me. Never tangled. Never lost a map. Not fallen off a hill (yet).
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I'd take occasional entanglement over no map/compass every time... But if you have a pack with side pockets, you can put the compass in one of these (as your pack - more than yer kecks or tops - is always going to be on top) then lark's foot or krab to one of the straps. Much less chance of tangling then...
With maps, you can use streetmap/bing (+ some Paint or similar editing prog) to print-off A4ish bits, then stick in a laminate/folder thing and stick in the opposite pack pocket (assuming your're a righty, you probably want map in right and compass in left) doing the same lark's foot/krab trick to the pack straps... (Obviously, with a full-sized map you're going to have to compromise and work out some attachment for jacket pockets or similar.)
Works for me. Never tangled. Never lost a map (yet).
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(Apols if something like my post this appears x3 - issues with posting...)
Minor tangling better than no map/compass... If you have a pack with side-pockets, try putting compass (and printed off A4 map) in there, then lark's footed (or krabbed) to pack straps...
Works for me :o)
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Haha. There you go. 3 posts (with editing) and I can't delete. Ooops. Sorry!
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