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What do you use for staying found and knowing where you are? |
Topo Maps + GPS |
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39% |
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GPS Only |
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0% |
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Topo Maps + Compass |
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30% |
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Topo Maps + Compass + Beacon ( SPOT etc) |
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0% |
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Topo Maps + GPS + Beacon (SPOT etc) |
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0% |
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Other |
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30% |
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IGO
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Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 6/8/2008, 6:29 am Post subject: |
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GPS are a blast. I almost never look at mine when hiking but I hike off route at lake mead very regularly and carry it with me always. Sometimes I end up twisted up in some very strange places and it's cool to have a record of that. When I get home I upload that days trac to a digital Topo so I can find something interesting again if I want to but mostly I past the trac to a map of the area with many other tracs I've pasted. Zoom out and after 4 years it is starting to become evidant just how much real-estate I've covered and what seems to be areas I gravitate to. Cool toy.
I have to admit though, in recording tracs as I go I am often times braver heading further into un-known territory knowing that I have recorded set by step instruction for going back out exactly the same way I came in YET i've never had to use the GPS for that function. _________________ "Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them." John Muir |
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