09-12-2008, 12:57 PM
You must have a rather high opinion of yourself and your ability to triangulate your position . Tell you what. Take a five gallon bucket and fill it full of rocks. Tie an eight foot floating rope to it and go out in the middle of Utah lake and drop it in. Go home and rest. Go back out the next day and try to find it. You would be lucky to get within a thousand feet, even with the best notes on what landmarks to use for position.
I know of a spot out in the middle of Utah lake where there are a few basket ball sized rocks. About eight of them. And I can find that spot very easily with my old Eagle GPS unit. I've tried to see how close I can get without GPS. Just by looking at landmarks and then turning on the GPS. I'm usually about a half mile off.
A few years ago, my buddy left his knife under a bush where he had killed an Elk. He went back a couple times trying to find the spot again and gave up. I had the spot on GPS and went back after it snowed, a month later and found his knife in five minutes.
GPS is awesome and anyone who spends lots of time in the outdoors should have one and know how to use it.
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I know of a spot out in the middle of Utah lake where there are a few basket ball sized rocks. About eight of them. And I can find that spot very easily with my old Eagle GPS unit. I've tried to see how close I can get without GPS. Just by looking at landmarks and then turning on the GPS. I'm usually about a half mile off.
A few years ago, my buddy left his knife under a bush where he had killed an Elk. He went back a couple times trying to find the spot again and gave up. I had the spot on GPS and went back after it snowed, a month later and found his knife in five minutes.
GPS is awesome and anyone who spends lots of time in the outdoors should have one and know how to use it.
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