Posted on 11/12/2023 11:49:40 AM PST by george76
“Google maps is not all it’s cracked up to be.”
No kidding. We get out in the secondary roads in Montana where there’s no cell service and Google Maps is absolutely useless. You might pick up one bar on LTE now and then and it takes five minutes to load one page.
You have to remember to map a route before you leave home so the app will cache that route for you. If you forget to do that, you are hosed.
I don’t believe area was ever logged or trail was overgrown, it was just never a real trail, a google invention.
Guy went down a steep slope and got stuck, couldn’t go up or down. Vancouver area trails are easy to access as roads or gondolas go up 3 different mountains on edge of urban area, to parking lots and visitor centers, and trails spread out from open areas, over a plateau but one deeply indented by ravines. Forest cover is spotty on plateau but dense in ravines, never logged out. Trails are well marked and nobody needs to be fooled by google pretend trails. But once you commit to one and get too far in, it can be difficult to reverse up a slope.
Cell service has improved here on the reservation a couple months ago. Before then, I had pretty much the same results.
Come to think of it, the satellite internet Hughes net has gotten better. Less Bufferjng and better resolution for YouTube videos.
But I would still recommend paper maps, road maps and topographic maps for the backcountry.
When it absolutely positively needs to be there over mountain...
Cheryl mills
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Tech can be wonderful until it isn’t
“still recommend paper maps, road maps and topographic maps for the backcountry.”
Absolutely agree. We generally are on simple out-and-back trails or loops that are well marked and under 10 miles. Haven’t done any real backcountry hiking or exploring for years. But you can get eaten by bears even at those short distances.
I found out when climbing a steep mountain covered in ice, that it is much easier climbing up icy rocks than climbing down.
The only way out was to continue to the top and climb down the sunny side of the mountain.
ROFL
Yeah unfortunately I do.
And supposed professional drivers pointedly ignore signs because “my gps said”.
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