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- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Path: sparky!uunet!seq!brant
- From: brant@seq.uncwil.edu (AT-Dreamer)
- Subject: Re: GPS, PC or non-PC?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.164116.8275@seq.uncwil.edu>
- Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
- References: <725071189.AA06844@urchin.fidonet.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:41:16 GMT
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- Carl.Seiler@f10.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Carl Seiler) writes:
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- >In a msg on <Dec 21 15:01>, Anmar Caves writes:
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- >Loran? Omega? Transit? GPS? Celestial? Deca is arguable.
- >What about other things you use in the backcountry?
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- You may go to the woods with this crap but I prefer a compass
- and my brain. (a map also helps)
-
- >>>Backpacks? Gore Tex? Freeze-dried food? How much are you ready
- >to
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- I would suggest freeze-dried food is no the most part lousy
- (even thou i carry one for emer. or extending a trip).
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- Gore Tex to me is over rated.
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- Backpacks, nay I don't think so, atleast no the back pack I carry
- mine is comfortable, big and not filled with instruments of
- destruction.
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