Yes Bob: I must agree GPS trekking is a modern way of life and not all
that technical to those that apply the science correctly.
In recent Border Patrol reports, they captured several Coyotes that were
carrying GPS devices and found that they had charted every wash, drain
pipe, cut through fence and Border Patrol high ground viewing point from
Texas to Baha California.
In interviews with the Coyotes from their jail cells they claimed that
the GPS system had substantially increased their successful delivery rate
of illegal immigrants and they could get higher fees because with the GPS
they could stash food and water in the difficult terrain they had to
cross and cut down on the deaths occurring from dehydration and
starvation on the difficult journeys.

Stan Wilder

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 22:28:14 -0600 Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM>
writes:
> On the other hand, the medical director of the program I work for is
> one of
> the parent/sponsors of his son's scout troop. The leaders of this
> troop
> almost always use topo maps they get off their computers, such as
> found
> accessable at Trails.com, plot GPS coordinates from the maps they
> get there,
> then use those as a guide while they are out on their 3-4 day trips
> with
> 10-15 scouts. Been doing it for 6-7 years that way. Not a new
> techno-weenie
> concept at all. They sometimes have to travel on unmarked desert
> roads in
> So. Utah for 30-40 miles, with multiple, unmarked intersecting
> roads, to get
> to some of these trailheads, and have never gotten lost....because
> they
> follow the preplanned GPS maps/coordinates they created off the
> computer
> prior to leaving. No odd/even numbered signs out there. Works.
>
> Bob Stevens
>
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