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The Lost Art? How to Read a Map

Oh yeah , certainly are , and * usually * works for me .

But a couple of times it had been enough decades passed since USGS Field Survey , or the Legacy original state level mapping at the dawn of Automobile Era , that the legacy road / trail had been totally reclaimed by nature , and other road / trails in vicinity were never officially mapped .

Two areas l have in mind , l want to go back with full GPS capabilities, and explore . But at the time , l had to admit defeat and turn around, and follow my metaphoric bread crumbs back out the way l came in .
 
^^^ Practical maybe. Don't forget flares, warm clothing and rain gear, food and water, ammo. I also carry a MSR WhisperLite Universal stove, titanium cookware, fire, bag and gore-tex bivvy, whistle.
 
when i was instructing students at the trucking school, you'd not be surprised at how many said they will not buy the rand-mcnally truckers atlas..

they are too dependant on gizmos..

and look at all the dumbasses driving on the boardwalks on the beaches, of bike paths, ot the "Tail of the Dragon"

screw-em........

i DO have a GPS that was given to me as a retirement gift, comes in handy at times, but i still have my truckers road atlas.......as NO GPS can give you ALL the information a truckers atlas can.
 
I always bought the large pages, large print, laminated super-deluxe trucker's atlas in the odd number years. I also had a grease pencil so I could make notes for a specific run if I wanted to. Too expensive for every year and I figured very very little would have changed. I also had a GPS. I'd put it in after figuring out my route on my own. It was handy for the final few miles the atlas wasn't detailed enough to show.
 
LDB said:
I always bought the large pages, large print, laminated super-deluxe trucker's atlas in the odd number years. I also had a grease pencil so I could make notes for a specific run if I wanted to. Too expensive for every year and I figured very very little would have changed. I also had a GPS. I'd put it in after figuring out my route on my own. It was handy for the final few miles the atlas wasn't detailed enough to show.
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i too only bought a truckers atlas, once every 3 to 4 years. roads under construction show up each printing, so by the time i got my new one, many times that road was finished, only to have another started.

GPS does not give you that, just a "go around", which i had personally seen were wrong.

i loved the laminated books, costly but always on sale somewhere.

i used dry erase markers.
 
I went through the Army Special Forces Jungle Warfare course, Fort Sherman, Panama. They dropped us off at midnight at the top of a mountain covered in triple canopy jungle, said go through it and find your way out. We had a Marine-issue lensatic compass, canteens and machetes. I got filthier in the first two hours in that place than if I'd spent two weeks in the Carolina pine scrub. The jungle was like dusk even at high noon. It stank. The terrain was unbelievably rugged; steep, muddy, ridge after ridge, deep ravines between them with rushing white water...and all covered by this thick green insanity.

The four of us were all combat vet Marine NCO's with land nav skills and still it took us four days before we emerged and found daylight on the bank of a wide brown river. The jungle was so thick, I doubt if GPS would've shortened our time that much.
 
I did security at a FedEx warehouse in Colorado Springs for three years.

Before I tell the story I have to say that FedEx has a company rule that they don't have over the road drivers. Every driver is supposed to return to the hub and go home every night. If say for instance the FedEx Hub in Houston has a bunch of stuff that's all going to Colorado Springs they will hire a third party contractor to pick up that trailer and drive it straight to Colorado Springs.

At the end of the first year FedEx moved to a different facility on the other side of town.

For the next two years until FedEx sold the building and quite possibly afterwards although we were no longer there and wouldn't know.

Every three or four months I would have a third party driver pull up to the gate at 2:00 in the morning and tell me that he was delivering for FedEx. I would tell him that FedEx had moved to the other side of town.

I would inform him that FedEx had moved and he would argue with me and I would ask him to pull out his travel ticket and look at the address on it.

Invariably the driver would pull out a sealed travel ticket and open it up and go this isn't on Mount View Lane.

Whoever it was had driven in most cases is halfway across the country without ever looking at the address on their trip ticket.

I had one guy one night that wanted directions on how to get to the new FedEx building. Because your GPS doesn't work?

So I told him I've never been there all I know is it's on the corner of Airport and Powers.

Well which corner?

I've never been there, I don't know. it's on the corner of Airport and Powers.

Well, is it right there at the intersection?

I've never been there, I don't know. it's on the corner of Airport and Powers.

Well what's the best way to get there?

How many different ways can I tell you I've never been there?

One guy was so insistent that I just finally gave him directions to Pueblo and went back into the office
 
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