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I've been in the market for a GPS unit for some time now. With all the mountain biking, hiking, trail running and road biking in different areas I always thought it a good idea to have one but, as always, was too cheap. Thankfully prices are dropping and sensitivity is getting better. My current favorite is Garmin eTrex Legend H which I've seen as low as $118.
So today's questions are as follows:
1. Do you own any form of GPS unit? If yes which one(s)?
2. How long have you been using GPS units?
3. When lost driving how do you get your self "found"? (stop and ask, map, gps, wet finger in air...)
4. Tell us your worse "I'm sooooooo lost how am I am ever going to find my way home?" story.
Enjoy
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probligo posted the following comment:
––1 Never
2 Never
3 NZ is too small to get lost in
4 The family who were touring the South Island in a campervan in early June (late autumn in NZ). They dialled up the shortest route between Hanmer Springs and St Arnaud. After 8 hours driving on VERY rough roads they arrived at a padlocked gate. While they were debating what to do next a man drove up the other way in a 4WD ute and unlocked the gate for them. His comment "I heard there was some idiot on the Molesworth station road so I came to see if they had wrecked the gate. The Molesworth road is recommended 4WD only during summer and is closed in winter.
Shows the difference between "shortest" and "quickest" routes. The quickest is about a three hour drive, and twice the distance.
Sorry I just think that is hilarious...
on Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:30:06 -0800
Mark posted the following comment:
––Probligo – Sorry for the direct question but are you from NZ as in New Zealand...home of the All Blacks??
If so NICE!
on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:03:32 -0800
Timothy R. Butler posted the following comment:
––1. Garmin Foretrex 101 for Geocaching and Geotagging of photos; iPhone 3GS for the occasional navigational task.
2. Three and a half years.
3. Map, wet finger in the air, occasionally asking.
4. Hmm... I need to think about that one... I'll get back to you when I find my way home. ;–)
Ed Hurst posted the following comment:
––1. No, I'm even cheaper than you.
2. I can recall when the military first introduced the technology. The equipment weighed about 50 pounds, as I recall.
3. The last time it happened, I was in Denmark. They have regional and local maps posted in every village and town at significant traffic nodes. I tend to avoid situations where I can get lost.
4. See #3. Since there's really not that much to Denmark, it wasn't hard to use directional reckoning and keep driving toward the goal until we got back to an autobahn.
Coming in second was a biking trip across the eastern Ardennes, and it really didn't matter if I got where I had planned to go, since there were lots of interesting places to camp. I eventually found a decently marked rural highway and found I had made okay time on my planned journey. The bike broke down the second day.
on Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:59:31 -0800