Greenhorns.
1) if you're not used to traveling in the dark, a dark, treacherous mountain trail is probably not the place to start learning.
2) "Apps" are cute at a coffee shop in the city, not so much out in the wilderness. the screen is too small to get any meaningful detail. If you blow them up to get good resolution, you lose map area - and probably the label on the map that says "here there be dragons", which, according to Murphy's Law, will be just off the edge of the screen, AND always in the direction you are walking.
3) if your bitty little screen has anything other than MGRS grid co-ords or lat/long co-ords for using with a map, your device is cute, but useless.
4) technology will kill you dead when over-relying on it.
5) Even an actual GPS or PLGR needs a map AND a compass to go with it to be used effectively. Apps are NOT actual GPS's, nor are they even close. What is called a "GPS function" in apps is actually just triangulation off cell towers, not real live GPS. It is NOT, repeat NOT nearly as accurate as an actual GPS - which again needs a map and compass to be effective.Built-in app maps don't get it - you may be as much as 300 meters off from where it says you are, which is an important thing to know when dealing with cliffs in the dark.
Greenhorns.
1) if you're not used to traveling in the dark, a dark, treacherous mountain trail is probably not the place to start learning.
2) "Apps" are cute at a coffee shop in the city, not so much out in the wilderness. the screen is too small to get any meaningful detail. If you blow them up to get good resolution, you lose map area - and probably the label on the map that says "here there be dragons", which, according to Murphy's Law, will be just off the edge of the screen, AND always in the direction you are walking.
3) if your bitty little screen has anything other than MGRS grid co-ords or lat/long co-ords for using with a map, your device is cute, but useless.
4) technology will kill you dead when over-relying on it.
5) Even an actual GPS or PLGR needs a map AND a compass to go with it to be used effectively. Apps are NOT actual GPS's, nor are they even close. What is called a "GPS function" in apps is actually just triangulation off cell towers, not real live GPS. It is NOT, repeat NOT nearly as accurate as an actual GPS - which again needs a map and compass to be effective.Built-in app maps don't get it - you may be as much as 300 meters off from where it says you are, which is an important thing to know when dealing with cliffs in the dark.
Greenhorns.
Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’