Old, old technology

[kairos12]

I was on a mountain hike and came to a complex trail junction. At said location there was a group wandering around looking at their phones apparently to find the right trail from their current position.

I yelled, " I have a map, want to look at it."

I used my hiking pole to kind of measure stand off distance. I pointed out their location on the map and they took a picture of it from a safe distance.

Maps. Don't run out of battery life. Don't need cell service.

Signed, old infantry guy.

Have a safe Thanksgiving all.

[samnsara]

1. my house is out of a cell service area.. so funny to see how many ppl get lost up here..

...use a map!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. Plus, a map covers a limited area. When you've walked out of that area, ...

... you can use that map to light the campfire. Tomorrow, use the map of the adjacent area.

Unless you're out west. In which case, don't light a campfire.

[brush]

3. So keep both handy.

[lastlib]

4. And they don't get broken....

or die when they get wet.

I teach map & compass to Scouts. I don't teach them GPS until they have thoroughly MASTERED map & compass.

"Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic. " --Arthur C. Clarke

"Mankind never surrenders its most basic tools." --Clarke or Isaac Asimov (can't remember which....)

NASA spent millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours trying to develop an ink pen that would work in outer space. The Russians just used a pencil.

[NNadir]

5. I remember them. They were made of something called "paper" that was apparently made from trees.

[Aristus]

6. I always got high marks in land nav when I was in.

Although I was a tanker, once a year we had to do a dismounted land nav proficiency course. Then I had to do it again during PLDC. My land navigation scores, plus a few other things, got me Honor Grad.

[pansypoo53219]

7. maps rule. made up my own triptik to get to an art show because construction on 1-94. its gonna

4 hours. ain't getting up that early to drive from madison,wi, to clinton iowa. going on small st highway roads i go there in about 3 hours. i was zipping in the wee hours. 1 rabbit committed suicide, but that all. good sale. did it 1 or 2 more times.

made another triptik to take a st route to milw to miami for my cousin's wedding. we made it all the way to athens, georgia when signage fail. got lost. found a nice restaurant had some food + looked for the I. shaved off a few hours + saw some cool stuff.