[pct-l] Compass vs GPS /// Re: Pct-L Digest, Vol 100, Issue 14

[Luce Cruz]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:05 PM, <jcil000-hiker at yahoo.com> wrote:

> David Harris:Check my link if you can still see it to the case of the
> woman who went missing on the AT. They foundher two years after she had
> gone missing and only by chance. A land survey crew happened to
> bushwhackthrough her campsite and her tent was still visible (she was
> inside deceased). She was only 3,000 feetoff the trail.


First, please trim your digest posts.Thanks.

Second, three thousand feet is a little more than half a mile. That's not
insignificant in thick woods or brush and/or difficult terrain. That's
pretty darned lost to me.

-- 
Luce Cruz