[pct-l] Jim still has the best answer :)

[AsABat]

>
> >>We've stood there looking at [the GPS] and it's saying the trail is over
> there but
> we're not believing it.


This happened to me in rain storm. I was using map and compass, another
hiker using a mapping GPS. We got off trail in some brushy blowdowns. He
insisted the trail was over there, but couldn't find it. I just backtracked
100 feet to where we lost the trail, took a compass bearing, and saw the
trail going through the brush. The GPS map had the trail well off to the
right.


> >>A compass or a GPS is worthless without the ability to make good
> decisions.


Yes, knowledge is the most important tool. Compasses and GPSrs just give you
the information to use that knowledge on .


> >>The trail is well marked. There are extra markings in the form of
> ducks or sticks laid out to spell H2O or to make little arrows.
>
You've never seen a kid move the markers as a joke? It's not funny.


> >>People have written arrows with sharpies on things.


Graffitti.

>>There are footprints all over the trail and the snow.

Which brings us back to the thruhiker lost on Fuller Ridge who finally found
and followed footprints that led to another thruhiker who was also lost.

AsABat