GPS to be degraded during crisis

“http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2004121521290001739682&dt=20041215212900&w=APO&coview=

Always carry your Map and Compass!
The GPS system has always had this feature, because it was built and paid for as a military system.”

“Awwwwwwwww........

I don't have one. >8^P”

“I always carry a map and compass, even when I'm using a GPSR. You never have to worry about the batteries going dead in a compass. :)”

“I'm with you MarkO

TeeHee!

I remember doing my 5th grade expolers repeort on Ferdinand Magellan. He found his way around South America with out a g_d d_amn GPS.

I guess he had that common sense stuff.”

“I didn't have my GPS with me during 9/11. Probably won't have it with me in the next one. Actually, I don't think it would have solved my problem of trying to find a way off Manhattan Island anyway.”

“I have a gps and love it. But there's just something about a paper map and compass. It's more fun trying to read the terrain compared to the map. I don't know anyone who looks at their gps with loving memories of the trips it's been on. I have however spread out a big topo with notes written in here and there remembering the great times I had there.”

“I'd like to see someone wipe their ass with a GPS.”

“I need to bring MarkO and JO to a couple places in the ADKs where the iron content in the ground makes compass needles point south. It's a little unnerving, but fun to watch. These areas are a good reason early surveys of the area can’t be trusted. Most of the time when I do bring a GPSR I don’t end up using it.”

“Let's go to Santanonni, I could find my way in there blind drunk.


And the muthuh was socked in.

Maybe I should go back with le Gremlin.”

“As W would say.....bring it on!!
ADKs ....let's go.

Funny how several of the people on TT who have mentioned how they have a GPS device have gotten themselves lost in easy terrain. Not that it matters.....getting lost is educational.”

“Lost ?

or temporarily misplaced ?? LOL”

“How about the Santanoni's in late April? We could see how well the GPS works when we're stuck under 5' of mud.”

“I prefer "disconbooberated".”

“Is that what you call it when you're stuck in a maze of boobs and can't find your way out?”

“Come on bit. Be serious for one damn time in your miserable life.






















If you were lost in a maze of boobs would you even want out? LOL!”

“Poor Stovie, we thrashed his thread.


Getting lost is educational.

I learned to bring my compass.”

“If they were still attached the women's bodies, I guess not...”

“I don't know Jo. Every single time I've gotten "momentarily displaced" I had a compass with me. Could have been my brain I didn't bring.”

“LOL@MarkO

Thread Degeneration? Here on TT????? ;-)

I've never been lost, just wasn't quite sure were I was. ;-)”

“GPS is just a tool, as are map and compass.

When I first came on this board, Gordon remarked that if you drop a GPS on a rock, you have an expensive piece of junk. If you drop your map, you still have a map.

I would hate to think that those evil-doing terrorists are planning to infiltrate our hiking trails.”

“Does this mean that we'll be able to pick up porn on our GPS's?”

“Pgps. I'll have to bring extra tissues.”

“I don't know anyone who is so stupid as to hike with a gps only and no map.”

“I've had a GPS for a long time. I had more trouble picking up a signal with the 8 sat units than now. Every situation it changes. It doesn't really seem to matter much for hiking. While I always carry a map & compass & altimeter, GPS (as a backup) only seemed to be off by 300'(varied) at most which didn't effect me at all.”