Re: Basic navigational skills badly missing

On 27/11/05 13:24, in article
1133097853.732310.88320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Ken"
<dormouse101@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So we're going to get a gps unit and, certainly in winter it'll go in
> the bag and it'll be used as others have suggested - when it seems
> vital we're right, when traditional methods are too unreliable and to
> have fun with at the end of the day comparing actual route to intended.

I must admit the thing that surprised me most about this story was that
nobody in this group was carrying a gps.

I very rarely use my gps and I don't always carry it. But I sure as hell
would have been carrying it in the Cairngorms, especially when the weather
forecast had been pretty consistent for so long.


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