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What do you use for staying found and knowing where you are?
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What do you use for staying found and knowing where you are?
Topo Maps + GPS
39%
 39%  [ 13 ]
GPS Only
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
Topo Maps + Compass
30%
 30%  [ 10 ]
Topo Maps + Compass + Beacon ( SPOT etc)
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
Topo Maps + GPS + Beacon (SPOT etc)
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
Other
30%
 30%  [ 10 ]
Total Votes : 33

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PostPosted: 6/8/2008, 6:29 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

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.
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