So you thought traditional navigation was no longer needed?

[wanderingblade]

I can look at it when I'm completely lost and find out just about where i am.

I guess here's the difference - I never enter a forest with a destination in mind or route. I let the natual flow / animal paths / terrain guide me.

 

[wicca]

Ha! It's all very well you lubbers dismissing GPS... and strangely enough I never use it when wandering in remote places ashore but after three days of this...

I have a sextant, but without a sight of the sky day or night it's just an ornament. Dead reckoning is fine, but when you're closing a rocky shore where the tides and currents play havoc with dead reckoning, and throw a gale forecast, just for good measure.... I love my GPS

Beat the gale and safe inside..Thankyou Mr Garmin xxxxx....

 

[jdlenton]

I guess here's the difference - I never enter a forest with a destination in mind or route. I let the natual flow / animal paths / terrain guide me.

Fair point but a four day hike to get to the other end when you said you would (and in today's terms unfortunately that means getting other peoples kids home, the minibus back in the yard and you back to work) you need to be tight on both direction on time. All can be done analogue and that should be the main method but the GPS can help give you another edge.

 

[wanderingblade]

Fair point but a four day hike to get to the other end when you said you would (and in today's terms unfortunately that means getting other peoples kids home, the minibus back in the yard and you back to work) you need to be tight on both direction on time. All can be done analogue and that should be the main method but the GPS can help give you another edge.

This is really interesting - I've never ventured out to the woods with a schedule / time scale so the concept of having to be at a certain point at a certain time is foreign to me.

I don't do 'destinations' I do 'journeys'

Am I a hippy?

 

[Pcwizme]

I like my GPS as well, it is not a sat nav however, it tells me where i have been but more importantly for me things like my speed and how long i have been traveling, and means on the bike i can download the data for mapping info if i find a walk that i would like to repeat
and the such,

Still I teach my Scouts the pros and Cons of a compass map and GPS and 9 times out of ten the compass and map win!

 

[Tor helge]

In my opinion GPS is for Motorways, not Mountains,

except for getting accurate 10 figure grid references which is very handy but they dont work in bad weather; which is when you need them most haha.

I have a watch with built in GPS, its good for keeping distance but only owrks on clear days.

Just qurious. What gps didn`t work in bad weather?

Tor