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sandlanders 15 years, 10 months ago.
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Just wondering
Sometimes. Is there times I were I didn’t and should have. Yeeeeeeeeees! 🙄 Do ya know JUST how BIG that Chequamegon forest really is????? 😯 😕 😉
Never.
I leave the trac-log feature on at all times and…..I have an innate sense of direction. Only once while caching was I turned around…it was while I was questing for a FTF at midnight in thick cover while coyotes were howling nearby….I panicked a bit and lost my way…I always have the backtrack feature on the GPS. I don’t always use it, like the time I fell off a cliff! 😯
kinda hard to backtrack that one, I’m guessing
Like 7 times out of 10 I will do that ’cause I kinda get that “feeling” that it sure would be nice to return from where we started. 😆
But, I gotta tell you it’s those other three times 💡 that I really wish I had marked it! 😀
_______________________________“I thought you said this is where we parked!?”
My GPS marks where I started the search, most of the time is within my vehicle. While I don’t have a fancy “trail” that shows where I’ve gone, it does show me the straight line between where I started and where GZ was. I rarely need to look back at it, but it’s good to have when the trees all start looking the same.
We don’t mark where the vehicle is, but since the receiver is most often on when we get somewhere, the back tracking can guide us back to the vehicle. There have been some cases where that is exactly what we had to do.
At other times, we wished we would have marked where the car was and used “Go To”, like if we took a long winding route to the cache by following a trail or creek or something, but then we see the car isn’t that far away for the return trip if we would go directly to it. We still usually opt for the retracing our route option, though, because we know what to expect as far as obstacles and bushwhacking go on the way back.
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