Re: Re: GPS use

[K Ellis <karenellis3@shaw.ca>]

ME NEITHER!   I have been wondering also how others make out with reading
glasses and maps.  I'm blind as a bat for close up but get dizzy if I keep
them on for distance....  surely not bifocal trail glasses, kinda like ski
goggles?
Karen


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandy Bolinger" <bolinger@bigsky.net>
To: <ridecamp-d@endurance.net>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 7:03 PM
Subject: RC: Re: GPS use


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