[Cdt-l] Gentle Reminder

[bcss at bresnan.net]

I don’t know too much about them.  I have one temporarily that was sent to
me by a woman who is hiking The Colorado Trail this summer and was having
trouble setting it up.  I think it is almost perfect for a hiking GPS.
Small, light, not too fancy, and fairly cheap compared to some of them.  It
is the first recreational GPS+Glonass to come along.  Glonass is the Russian
GPS system which is similar to the American one.  We have GPS+Glonass on our
main mapping gps and it is awesome.  Basically, you have twice as many
satellites available so you don’t have as many problems from obstructions.
Works way better in big trees and deep canyons.  I tested this one on our
local trig station and it was a bit over 4 meters off in real time.  That’s
good for a recreational GPS.  (Our main unit is accurate to about ½ meter
but it weighs a couple of pounds.)   

 

BTW, I had no problems setting it up.   It holds up to 2,000 waypoints so I
was able to put the entire CT in there with room to spare.  

 

Frank Gilliland (on this forum) has one and is using it this summer.  He has
been tinkering with it for a while now and knows much more about them than I
do.  Frank?

 

 

 

best wishes,

 

Jerry Brown

 <mailto:bcss at bresnan.net> mailto:bcss at bresnan.net

www.bearcreeksurvey.com

 

From: Andrew James [mailto:longhiker.pct at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 3:21 PM
To: bcss at bresnan.net
Cc: cdt-l at backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [Cdt-l] Gentle Reminder

 

Well said.

Never knew the Etrex was that light. Do you have one?  Would you recommend
it? 

AJ

On Sunday, March 18, 2012,  <bcss at bresnan.net> wrote:
> I have lots of flagging laying around and I just weighed a roll of it.  A
single roll weighs 4-1/2 ounces, which is exactly what a Garmin E-trex 30
with batteries weighs.  You can load the entire CDT waypoint database into
the Etrex, including the confusing and, or, unmarked turns.  Like flagging
without the mess.     
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> best wishes,
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> Jerry Brown
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> mailto:bcss at bresnan.net
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> www.bearcreeksurvey.com
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> From: cdt-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:cdt-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
On Behalf Of Brian Dickson
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 2:52 PM
> To: cdt-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: [Cdt-l] Fw: Gentle Reminder
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> Its not 'grating and offensive' Lynne, I just don't happen to agree!
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> brian 
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> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: lynne whelden <lwgear at juno.com>
> To: cdt-l at backcountry.net
> Sent: Sunday, 18 March 2012, 20:17
> Subject: [Cdt-l] Gentle Reminder
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> Amazing how one man's gentle reminder is grating and offensive to another
man. I learned long ago that I can't please everybody. My only hope is that
what I'm suggesting will resonate with some one who will then actually do
it. I'm also assuming that not everyone reads every list email so an
occasional (this is, what, the third email in the past 3 months?) reminder
is in order.
> Call it gross, call it pollution, call it litter, call it a blaze.
> I call it the elite 1% responding to the needs of the 99% who wouldn't
even consider hiking the CDT otherwise. If I didn't care, I wouldn't bother
writing.
> lynne whelden
> lwgear.com
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