09-02-2010, 04:24 PM
[quote idahopanfish]Great new "stuff" TD. It just never ends the lure of the PVC and fishin'. What did we do berfore, how did we make it? Like triangulation vs gps, and lead weight depth finder and thermometers vs electronics. It's awesome.[fishin][/quote]
BUT, despite the wonderful advances in technology, they don't always make it easier. Example, I was on an Elk hunt in Colorado and we were based around 7800ft and I was hiking on a ridge about 4 miles from camp at ~10K ft and my wonderfully advanced GPS was telling me which direction camp was. Had I followed the GPS directions I would have been going in the wrong direction. Suspecting that might be the case as I'm "reasonably" good with direction, I used my military training, took out my topo map (I do carry one when hunting) and my compass and triangulated my position and also easily determined the direction I should be going...which was NOT the direction the GPS pointed me. Found out later that it was an issue with the soil composition of the ridge I was on...old mining area.
It does serve as one small lesson to teach our kids the "old school" way as it could save their life should all their high-tech gadgets fail them.
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BUT, despite the wonderful advances in technology, they don't always make it easier. Example, I was on an Elk hunt in Colorado and we were based around 7800ft and I was hiking on a ridge about 4 miles from camp at ~10K ft and my wonderfully advanced GPS was telling me which direction camp was. Had I followed the GPS directions I would have been going in the wrong direction. Suspecting that might be the case as I'm "reasonably" good with direction, I used my military training, took out my topo map (I do carry one when hunting) and my compass and triangulated my position and also easily determined the direction I should be going...which was NOT the direction the GPS pointed me. Found out later that it was an issue with the soil composition of the ridge I was on...old mining area.
It does serve as one small lesson to teach our kids the "old school" way as it could save their life should all their high-tech gadgets fail them.
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