taking maps/compass or not... Re: Re[2]: [at-l] What about thebooks?

[Slyatpct at aol.com (Slyatpct@xxxxxxx)]

Sloetoe,

Thanks for the kudos.  I added the standard disclaimers to my original post 
with ymmv, why you can't accept that I don't know.  However, if an emergency 
should arise, I repeat, I'm more likely to take the trail or a noted side trail 
to a road, then to bushwack to heaven knows where.  I don't need a map for 
that, it's all in the databook!

If I want a sunrise, I know it rises in the east.  A sunset?  Look west.  If 
there isn't any sun, there is no sunset.  I carry enough water to the next 
noted water source.  Perchance I stumble on another, I drink if I feel like it.  
If I see a nice camp spot along the trail and it's time to camp, I camp.  If I 
want to take a side trail I can do that too and have without a map.

While you're offering advice about taking a map and compass, do the folks a 
favor and add a link or two on how to use them.  All the requirements of my 
advice is to be able to read and pay attention to white blazes.  It's not rocket 
science.

Sly


In a message dated 11/13/2003 4:41:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
sloetoe@yahoo.com writes:

> ### Kudos, Sly, on the determination to hike the AT, the PCT,
> and then the CDT, but that same determination is not serving you
> well on this topic. I hope you don't get jail time for
> strangling the poor yutz morally charged with hauling your
> compound-leg-fractured butt out of the woods when they pick a
> route that takes 5.5 rugged hours, and you find out at the
> bottom that there was a smooth route -- 3.0 hours to boot -- in
> the other direction. 2.5 hours without morphine can be a
> lifetime.