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Dartful Dodger:
Stay on a trail preferably paved, go in one direction, when you get tired or bored turn around.

97thruhiker:
Well I'm a professional forester and wildland firefighter.  I manage / supervise approximately 35,000 acres of forest land here in Florida, pretty flat stuff.  Hardly use GPS even though I have access to multiple units, just prefer to use aerial photos and compass for cruising in the woods.  I've thru-hiked the entire Appalachian Trail in 1997 but you really need no navigation skills to do that, just mental willpower and a little luck not to get hurt.  What kind of hiking are you looking at doing?

shmokes:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 14, 2009, 03:01:34 pm ---
He's calling BS on a minor point in my original post.  This after dredging up a dead end 2004 usenet thread about how a bunch of games being sold openly were really stolen 25 years ago and after offering a guy 5 bucks for revenge photos of his soon to be ex wife. 

He's all class.

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I still don't understand the pictures of the makeup artists.

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 14, 2009, 03:12:37 pm ---"So, here are our points, and between it is sand.  Then we turn 30 degrees southeast and go 3 miles over sand.  Point three is 5 miles northeast from there but there is a ton of sand in the way."

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I was going to say that when I went hiking with my father, it was all landmark based. Things like, keep that mountain that looks like a castle on your right until you get to the river. The follow the river up stream until you reach the fork. Take the right fork until you get to the water fall. With the river on your right (never mind how to cross said river), continue following up stream, scale the nasty cliffs, watch out for the poison oak, and try to find the rock that looks like an old mans head....

When you've got a bunch of sand, I guess all of that goes out the door.  :cheers:


--- Quote from: shmokes on May 15, 2009, 01:16:34 am ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 14, 2009, 03:01:34 pm ---
He's calling BS on a minor point in my original post.  This after dredging up a dead end 2004 usenet thread about how a bunch of games being sold openly were really stolen 25 years ago and after offering a guy 5 bucks for revenge photos of his soon to be ex wife. 

He's all class.

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I still don't understand the pictures of the makeup artists.

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I have a theory, but I'd probably get banned for presenting it :dunno

ChadTower:

That was jim's less than clever way of saying someone made something up.  Apparently I either made up having a grandfather or that he taught me anything.   :dunno


--- Quote from: 97thruhiker on May 14, 2009, 09:43:27 pm ---What kind of hiking are you looking at doing?

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I've done a lot of day hikes in various places over the years but I want to try some longer ones.  The White Mountains have too many awesome places to see.  You may be right that for a lot of places you don't really need true navigation skills, just follow the markers, but it just makes sense to me to be prepared for lost markers.  I just discovered the this trail which would be a good long hike for practice.  No risk of getting lost, I've done most of those parts with my sons already, and it is very local.  Seems to be part of this much longer trail.

And if I can ever pull off large parts of that maybe something like what you did on some or all of the Appalachian eventually.  That's one of my life's goals - at least one really long through hike like that.

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