Steadman,

Maybe the way your are orienting yourself can be improved. Try taking a square inch of map where you are in the middle and orient yourself 7 ways from that. A square inch gives you 500 feet in each direction.

The first two way for me are always timing from my last fix and my estimate based on peeks at the map along the way. See if you can find 5 ways from the picture below. You are heading west.
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