ShovelBum67

Back in the dark ages before SA was turned off I used to love finding bearing trees while doing archaeological surveys in northern Idaho. They along with any benchmarks we might find gave us a firm fix on our location and settled "where the heck are we on the map" discussions. To be honest sometimes I actually miss having to shoot points with a compass and traingulating to map your position, takes a lot less skill to push a button and mark a waypoint, but it is a lot faster and easier. Sound like a retro-grouch don't I?

This is a good reason always carry a good old fashioned compass and know how to use it even if you have a GPSr with a compass. No need to recalibrate or worry about batteries. There are times that if your electonic compass quits on you it may mean much worse than not finding a cache. Gadgets are great tools, but poor crutches.