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Re: [pct-l] What's a backstaff?
- Subject: Re: [pct-l] What's a backstaff?
- From: "Kurt Herzog" <kpherzog%40cdsnet%2Enet>
- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 12:34:50 -0800
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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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