rambrush

Way back in 1987 I spent 3 weeks fighting wildland fires in Rouge River stayed at the rouge river park. We hiked all over them mountains and I can say for a fact it is rough unforgiving country. Of course back then we did not have gps units just studied topos and made our way. There are old mines ore carts the tracks for the carts to run on all over in the backcountry, we came across pot plantations back in the woods cause it was so thick. Would be surprised if a gps woulda been able to get out the cover is so thick. been on huge fires in Yosemete NP up north of Hetch Hetchy resevoir people just need to undertstand there limitiations. spent 15 years in the fire service and I still get a tad turned around at times in the backcountry. Sorry it happened but it coulda been prevented. just my 2 cents.

Superstition I actually have gone to a 1 gig card, holds plent of mp3's etc. works great.

I get out there and wonder if its really worth the extra expense to be connected. Would it be better to just buy a 60csx and have it with me 24/7? Monday had a situation in the wind where the paper with the info on a cache departed the scene. If I was online I would have been to retrieve the info. I have the Nextel I-580 and its as tough as advertised. maybe over the few months I can make up my mind.

As a super rookey I went out again looking and could not locate either one. On the unit do you set it up for wgs 72 or? do you use utm or? trying to figure out where I am going wrong. currently using etrex vista Thanks I will continue searching as I suspect what I am asking for is here somewhere.