Re: GPS use

["Sandy Bolinger" <bolinger@bigsky.net>]

OK..I'll admit that I've never seen a "GPS"...Is it similar to a lap
top????????? If so...How do you carry it along with you on a horse???? Does
it have keys like a computer???? With bells and whistles????What if it
rains...or you get it wet when sponging your horse??  Do you have to put on
your reading glasses to see what ever it does?????? Does it attract dust
(like a TV screen?) Does it work when it's below freezing??? Does it
occasionally give you the wrong information??? Or is it absolutely perfect,
all the time like a computer???  (If the answer is "yes" to the reading
glasses question, then I will NEVER own one!)


























----- Original Message -----
From: Cindy Collins <sunsetrim@hotmail.com>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 3:14 PM
Subject: RC: GPS use


> Wow!  We endurance folks could argue with a post (...I mean the wooden
> kind).  I rode only five days of the XP 2001, but I LOVED the GPS
waypoints
> and am sold on it.  Only half of the folks had GPS units, but along with
the
> downloaded info., Dave had printed out the waypoints and maps.  Like
others
> have mentioned, I felt more secure than I've ever felt on a strange trail.
> Also, my friend Lauren borrowed my GPS (Garmin etrex legend, by the way)
and
> had been whining for months that she'd never be able to use one,
etc.....She
> loved it, too, and is thinking about buying one now!  It never occured to
me
> to ONLY use GPS on a "regular" ride.  I see it as a tremendous advantage,
> though.  On the Big Horn I plan to have the entire course marked with GPS
> waypoints, plus have a written waypoint printout like the Duck's.  We will
> still mark the trail, but the BH has a long history of problems with
> vandalism and weather damage.  I see the GPS markings as the ultimate
> solution.  I can remember when we all rode 100 milers without  glo sticks.
> Now riders whine if you don't have 300 glo sticks out on 25 miles of
trail.
> GPS marking is probably inevitable.  Enjoy it!  Cindy
>
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