[pct-l] Technology on the Trail

[kraig.mottar at verizon.net (Kraig Mottar)]

No one "needs" technology, but it is nice. People like computers to write books, notes, and research something, GPS's make it easiers to teel where you are, etc and how far you've gone. Technology is nice to have, but everyone realizes they don't "need" it.

You need food and water, you don't need a GPS and a cel phone.

Kraig

> From: Lonetrail@aol.com
> Date: 2005/01/18 Tue AM 11:34:22 PST
> To: rubberchuckie@yahoo.com,  pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Technology on the Trail
> 
>  
> Thoreau was the first spaced cadet, losted in space.  Clark had Indian  
> Guides, Muir just wandered around never knew were is was going so he was  never 
> lost. At the turn of the century navigation was a required subject in  school. So 
> who needed a GPS. You checked the sun for time. The computer was a  pencil 
> and you used your head to calculate not a calculator. Radio! Just  learn to 
> yodel like they do in the Alps. 
>  
> That solved everthing 
>  
> Lonetrail:
> 
> I often  wonder how H.D. Thoreau or John Muir or Clinton Clarke would have 
> felt if they  were alive today about hikers and their need to bring technology 
> into the  wilderness with them. I'm not writing of fancy clothing or Sil-Nylon 
> shelters  but of this craving--this apparent necessity--to carry a digital 
> altimeter  watch or a GPS unit;
> 
> 
>  
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