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Re: [pct-l] What's a backstaff?



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> From: Greg Hummel <ghummel@hydrogenburner.com>
> To: pct-l@saffron.hack.net
> Subject: [pct-l] What's a backstaff?
> Date: December 29, 1997 11:47 AM
..snip/snip..
> Any crester out there ever carry a sextant to chart his northward (or
> southward) progress?

I doubt it.  You need a horion to use a standard sextant; that's not
generally available on the PCT!  You could carry a "artificial horizon"
sextant, but with the acompanying math tables etc. it would be quite
a load!

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