Re: Bush legacy - GPS in jeprody because of mismanagement

ASCII wrote:

Sometimes we would try to determine where some visible
object was from field sightings referenced to a known location
(triangulation). This included mountain peaks and flashing navigation
beacons.

I usually carried the large scale Forest Service maps that have the trails
and features marked, but no topographic information. Figuring out which of
several unremarkable knobs was 'Porcupine Point' wasn't always easy. I've
had to move some things around in my personal map space since using the
GPS.

The FS didn't always have a clue either. I've spend some enjoyable days
driving around with a pickup full of those '17635' road signs and the best
maps the FS had to offer trying to correctly sign a labyrinth of logging
roads. After leaving a known intersection, it was usually counting the
branches, except guys with bulldozers tend to create their own roads and
not tell anyone.

GPS's have also refined the infamous 'Forest Service Mile'. After you've
been hiking 2 hours to Moose Meadows that was supposed to be 2.5 miles
away, you can look at the GPS and realize some office rat pencilled in as
the crow flies miles and you aren't a damn crow.

.

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