Call me old-fashioned (which I am not), but GPS is just a bad idea. Unless you need to conduct yourself in the woods for a living, or yer trying to find a fishin' hole, using GPS quickly becomes an overkill crutch ("camp is 30 meters to the left"), with batteries that WILL fail. Then, you are just carrying a lead weight. At Philmont, you do have backcountry stores for battery replenishment, but first you have to find them ;-) And your point about bad data, John, is I think the norm rather than the exception. I think we are doing the beginner backpackers a disservice (which most Philmonters are) by suggesting they lug GPS in the backcountry.
BTW, Scud missiles are in fact guided, just not by GPS.
- robig /"Been there, once."
John LeBlanc <philmontjohn@yahoo.com> wrote:
Be this as it may, GPS is a useful tool, ...
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