Ridecamp: Re: [RC] New Easyboot articles are online

At 07:34 PM 7/8/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> Hmmm...but using radios and/or a GPS during a ride is a violation of
> AERC rule 6.(k), is it not?

I wasn't suggesting anybody use these to break any rules!  Lots of rides 
use radios, this would be really handy for RM to use in some cases.  Cell 
phones don't always work.  There are rides where a GPS is given to the ride 
vets and that's how they find the away vet checks.  Modern times....

I think these would be a fun toy, but obviously I'm not going to rush right 
out and buy one.  At least not until my GPS III+ croaks, and it's still 
running pretty well.   These new ones do more, cost less (than the III+ 
did) and if you need it in an emergency it could really save somebody's 
life!   I doubt it would be a rule violation to use a radio or cell phone 
to ask for help, and if somebody is hurt who cares if you get DQ'd for 
breaking rule 6 whatever.  These new ones will even transmit your location 
to somebody else that has one, and they work with other radios.  They'd be 
great for training rides too, you could practice separating your horses and 
still find each other later.

I've GPS'd 60+ separate rides.  The RM's are usually pretty receptive to it 
and like getting the tracks of the entire ride later on.   The GPS is in my 
pack and I usually never look at it -- usually much easier to look at the 
paper map and directions.  The antenna is on the outside, without it I 
wouldn't get very accurate readings.  I think it would be great if all of 
the trails could be archived somehow, electronically.

k



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