Re: Basic navigational skills badly missing

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:11:09 -0000, "Paul Saunders"
<pvs1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>Traditional navigation is all very well if you can do it, but clearly some
>people aren't that skilled at it, especially in a whiteout. Yet even
>unskilled navigators would be able to ascertain their exact position with a
>GPS. Of course, I'm not suggesting taking *only* a GPS.

OK, so they presumably need a compass as back-up in case the batteries
fail in the GPS. But if they always take a GPS, how do they get the
skills needed to use a compass properly?

S.

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