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<blockquote data-quote="Red Sparky" data-source="post: 1007684" data-attributes="member: 37223"><p>I agree I still have my maps and compass but here is what happened last season to help with the gps. Why everyone, in my opinion, should have one and know how to use it. I was elk hunting on a mesa with not much elevation change on top but lots of big pines and meadows. It was a cloudy overcast day so imagine when the sun sets you want to go north so you put the brighter part of the sky on your left and start walking. It gets dark and you keep going by flashlight what you think is north. The clouds break and the setting moon is on your right. Now a setting moon is on your right when it should be on your left. The cloud cover made the sunset appear lighter in the east than the west. Hindsight being 20/20, lightbulb, I should have taken either a compass reading or used the gps rather than use what I thought was the setting sun. I pull out the gps and compass and both say I am south of where I want to be. The gps tells me it is 3/4 mile to the road and I am 200 yards from the "Grand Canyon" of NM, 1500 ft drop in 1/2 mile. Not the way I want to go. I could have gotten back to camp with either compass/map or gps. It was sure easier to navigate to a way point on the road I marked and know how far it was, how fast I was walking, and how long it would take me to get there. Yeah I plan on the electronics failing at some point but that gps pinpointed where I was on a map and sure made it easier in the dark to get back to camp.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Red Sparky, post: 1007684, member: 37223"] I agree I still have my maps and compass but here is what happened last season to help with the gps. Why everyone, in my opinion, should have one and know how to use it. I was elk hunting on a mesa with not much elevation change on top but lots of big pines and meadows. It was a cloudy overcast day so imagine when the sun sets you want to go north so you put the brighter part of the sky on your left and start walking. It gets dark and you keep going by flashlight what you think is north. The clouds break and the setting moon is on your right. Now a setting moon is on your right when it should be on your left. The cloud cover made the sunset appear lighter in the east than the west. Hindsight being 20/20, lightbulb, I should have taken either a compass reading or used the gps rather than use what I thought was the setting sun. I pull out the gps and compass and both say I am south of where I want to be. The gps tells me it is 3/4 mile to the road and I am 200 yards from the "Grand Canyon" of NM, 1500 ft drop in 1/2 mile. Not the way I want to go. I could have gotten back to camp with either compass/map or gps. It was sure easier to navigate to a way point on the road I marked and know how far it was, how fast I was walking, and how long it would take me to get there. Yeah I plan on the electronics failing at some point but that gps pinpointed where I was on a map and sure made it easier in the dark to get back to camp. [/QUOTE]
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