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He lives in the Palm Springs area--open desert.  A palm tree here and 
there.

Lynne

On Dec 13, 2003, at 1:31 PM, Tina Hicks wrote:

> Catfish, those are some pretty big discrepancies. You don't say where 
> you
> are riding but if it's under lots of trees or in/out of 
> mountains/valleys
> I'd be inclined to think, based on personal experience, that some 
> (maybe
> all?) of that difference is from the GPS losing satellites and not
> capturing all the distance travelled.
>
> Tina
>
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Catfish Daniels wrote:
>
> > Got myself a GPS not too long ago and did a bit of "study".  First 
> > off, I'm
> > not a big gadget fan at all, but...this GPS is awsome!!  Anyway, the 
> > study I
> > did was simple.  I went to all my riding buddies and rode with them.  
> > For as
> > long as I knew them, they all talked about how far they rode (Some 
> > are trail
> > riders, others participate in endurance rides).  When I actually rode 
> > with
> > them, would you believe that some of them were off by as much as 15 
> > miles
> > per training ride?


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