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"...But, I've never had a GPS nor really needed one.  In fact I am reminded 
of
that TV commercial where the guy is looking at his blackberry..."

That is the exact thing I tried to get across in the map and compass course 
I taught earlier this year.  It really scares me that some folk will go into 
the wilderness totally dependent on a GPS.

I taught about backing up the GPS with a paper map, and backing up the paper 
map with a compass, and backing up the compass by knowing the position of 
the sun and stars, and backing it all up by watching where you are going.

One example I used was the wreck of the Lady be Good.  The inexperienced 
navigators, and the others they relied upon relied to much on technology and 
not enough on observation.

Ed
Ed & Wendy Hauser
2994 Mittower Road
Victor, MT 59875

(406) 642-9640

ranch(at)sisuwest(dot)us 



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