Comments on: How to Determine Your Pace Count

on 1/13/2006 Take about two feet of para cord, 550 cord. Carefully melt the ends with a lighter and tie a single knot in each end. Fold in half. Take 9 small beads and string them down the folded cord. The fit should be snug enough that the beads do not move unless pulled by hand. Pull the beads down to the ends where you tied the knots. This should form a large loop at one end of the beads, with the two knots at the other end. Now tie a large knot about an inch above the beads. This should leave enough room for the beads to be separated and prevent them from being removed from the cord. Now take another five beads and string them down the folded cord above the knot you just tied. Now use the remaining loop to tie a half hitch knot around a key ring. You now have a pace counter. Each time you take enough steps to travel 100 meters separate one of the 9 lower beads from the rest. When you pull down the 9th bead, walk another 100 meters and pull down 1 of the top 5 and push the bottom 9 back up you have traveled 1000 meters. Using this method you can accurately travel 5000 meters.