> When they were searching for the A6 that flew into the Rockies, SA was > turned off. I marked my position on the beach, then a few hours later I > decided to paddle in "on instruments" and followed the GPS to the beach. I > landed on my footprints. That was with a 12XL. .12 miles is 633 feet. Way > too much of an error and I'd be calling Garmin if I were you. I posted a trip report a while back that mentioned we never found the small Island in the middle of the river we were looking for. Someone pointed out to me that the advent of cheap GPS receivers were uncovering a lot of errors in maps. It would seem with the images I've seen on the internet of topo pictures from satellites that very accurate topo maps would be fairly simple. Woody *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri May 28 1999 - 13:34:49 PDT
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