The tenderfoot was stupid. The Google map trail was probably old and petered out so he as a naive tenderfoot could no longer find it
Use Google Maps for researching places to go but DO NOT use Google Maps to get there.
Eh? I’ve spent a good bit of time in some remote areas and I can’t say I’ve ever walked into a place I couldn’t walk out of. Mebbe I’m just ignorant about such places but it seems odd to me.
I have wondered how things get into google maps in the first place. Some of it especially some things in towns, seem to be so precisely accurate, and then there are other things, especially out in rural areas, that are so wildly off that giving a kindergartener a crayon and telling them to remote view the area would likely be more accurate.
Incredible. Mid November, winter coming on, big rain storms in the NW, poor gear, poor footwear, no flashlight, cannot detect a fake map on Google, does not use AllTrails or GaiaGPS. No compass, no nav skills, no paper maps.
What an idiot. Some people deserve to wind up in pepper-smelling bear scat filled with bells.
Another thing you don’t trust is Drone photos of mountains. Found a cave on a mountaion side and the reality of what I had to climb was eye openeing.
Fifty years ago I had a VW THING and a county map of all the back roads in San Juan County NM. In my travels on those back roads I hit roads that had not seen a vehicle on them in decades! If my vehicle had broken down there my bones might still be bleaching in the sun.
I don’t even trust google maps for the roads we drive in in this country in civilization.
It always takes you by the worst possible route.
not following trail markers... first time in the woods???
LOL!! I personally discovered this kind of problem with the first GPS equipped SUV I had. It’s science, not witchcraft.
I use Gaia. You can download topo maps for use when cell service isn’t available. Which it isn’t when you need it most.
He walked in, he can walk out. That’s what they should have told the dumbass.
I had to explain that there are many routes available to cross three thousand miles of the very scenic USA that the gps would not show on it's tiny monitor.
During a vacation in Panama Google Maps frequently instructed us to turn so that we’d go off a cliff, or end us up in somebody’s backyard. Based on that experience (and a few rural adventure drives stateside) it’s my personal opinion that outside well settled areas, or the USA, it’s all but useless and can be dangerous to trust.
I wonder if any younger hiker or backpacker knows what magnetic declination is? I went to an REI outdoor store on a trip out west and asked for the topo maps of the area. The staff was completely ignorant of what they were and all they could show me were portable GPS devices.
Luckily, the rescuers found these people before the grizzly bears did. The lesson to be learned here is simple: trust not Big Tech, especially about stolen elections.
Charge him the costs of the rescue.
An accident waiting to happen, in other words. Navigation may be the least of this guy's problems.
Google maps are as useful as the warranty on my Zenith.