My step out of reality.

[Ninurta]

Hello Ninurta,  Thanks for asking

!) I was using map, compass and protractor and line of site to landmarks.  We weren't issued GPS back then.  Closest tech we had was a Sat phone about the size of a laptop.

So you could shoot azimuths to landmarks and triangulate your location, but the bluff at your location were not on the map. That's interesting. Did you record the grids to that location for later use in Google Earth or something like that?

BTW - your cell phone sometimes records your location in photos you take. Just a head's up - be careful of the photos you post. Your location can be gotten from the EXIF data in some of your photos. One of the ones you posted of Girlie had that data still in it. There is a free program called Irfanview that, among other things, can read that EXIF data and open the location up in Google Earth if you have that installed. I think it will also open the location in Google Maps on the internet if GE is not installed. On the plus side, Ifranview will save a cropped out section of the photo WITHOUT that pasky EXIF data, keeping the location of the photo secure.

2)  I stepped off the trail and walked back to the first bluff and rounded the slope.  That's when we spotted each other.  He'd driven right past me around the slope and pulled up.  Out of my sight at that point.

Hope that helps.  

Thanks for reading.

Bally:)

This is not the first time I've heard of people disappearing when they stepped on a path, or reappearing when they stepped off of it. I think that trackway was integral to your account.

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