Crutches , Gadgets , Gismos and Garbage for out there.
This is a carry over from a different post where we were talking about using bright colored tarps so you can find your campsite after you go for a days paddling. Some of us like the more nature friendly camps where they don't stand out and SHOUT ... Look At Me.
So to keep the other post in content and move the discussion over here :roll: ..........
I really hate to say this but I really have to ...... If you are out there paddling and camping and leave your campsite , intending to return at a later date or time , and then don't have the smarts or any idea where the campsite is ( But require a billboard to locate it ) then you don't belong out there but instead need to stay in some motel and have a road map.Hopefully on an interstate so some hitchhiker can point you in the right direction.
Especially if that is the only reason you require the bright tarp , not counting personal preferences which could be excused.
Down here we call it Orlando Paddlers or Campers ( City Slickers) out camping an paddling , you guys might use the word Greenhorns.
Don't laugh ... During my Range and Water days , I had to tell a lot of folks , even at times , show them where there camp was after the explained the surroundings to me , since they were lost. To top it off they , some of them were in spitting distance of where they wanted to be.
This is a really sore subject with me , cost me uncountless hours , needless , wasted hours of my off duty time ( No we did not get overtime back then) out there helping the idiots find there camp.
If you have no idea of how to get back to your camp then you do not need to be out there on the water ... Try hiking this way and if your camp is in Florida you might end up in Georgia while looking for it. "OR" Better yet ... Just stay in motels like I said. This way the poor guy working the river can be home after his shift with his family.
I can or will tell you this ... You could have the Good Year Blimp overhead as a marker for your camp , GPS , God and all of HIS wisdom paddling in the bow of your boat, If you do not pay attention to what you are doing and where you are then , suffer sucker.
I'm Retired and will not be there anymore to save you useless arse. Call someone else who cares , if they any of them do now days.
The best directional finder , GPS and anything else is what is between your ears when it comes to being out in the woods or on the water. Exercise it with just day walks in a park and then reverse your path or short padding.
Everything else (electronic , Man Made) can CRASH on you and when it does then what do you do , sit down and cry for mommy or call the cops , good luck the cell phone might not work.
Pay attention to where you are , where you have been and the route back. It does help to look behind you at times , this way a thing called your brain will register the return path.
The best thing a person can have is a compass ( normal one not battery powered ) and a good , updated map with the know how of using both of them.
If I have stepped on your toes , insulated you , ticked you off or done anything where you think I am the #1 Jerk , GOOD , I have you thinking and that just might save your hide one day.
Trust in your self , play with the toys but trust yourself.
Yep , I have the toys in the Jeep and with me on the water but I trust myself more then the toys.
In fact I use the toys to mark good camping spots when on the water and drive the one in the jeep nuts when driving , it does not know the shortcuts on getting to places. After all some nut behind a oak desk with a computer put all the road options in it. Not information from the locals.
Heck the one in the Jeep keeps telling me to take a road that is not there anymore to get home , some good directions , really makes me have faith in it and it has been updated. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Chuck.
This is a carry over from a different post where we were talking about using bright colored tarps so you can find your campsite after you go for a days paddling. Some of us like the more nature friendly camps where they don't stand out and SHOUT ... Look At Me.
So to keep the other post in content and move the discussion over here :roll: ..........
I really hate to say this but I really have to ...... If you are out there paddling and camping and leave your campsite , intending to return at a later date or time , and then don't have the smarts or any idea where the campsite is ( But require a billboard to locate it ) then you don't belong out there but instead need to stay in some motel and have a road map.Hopefully on an interstate so some hitchhiker can point you in the right direction.
Especially if that is the only reason you require the bright tarp , not counting personal preferences which could be excused.
Down here we call it Orlando Paddlers or Campers ( City Slickers) out camping an paddling , you guys might use the word Greenhorns.
Don't laugh ... During my Range and Water days , I had to tell a lot of folks , even at times , show them where there camp was after the explained the surroundings to me , since they were lost. To top it off they , some of them were in spitting distance of where they wanted to be.
This is a really sore subject with me , cost me uncountless hours , needless , wasted hours of my off duty time ( No we did not get overtime back then) out there helping the idiots find there camp.
If you have no idea of how to get back to your camp then you do not need to be out there on the water ... Try hiking this way and if your camp is in Florida you might end up in Georgia while looking for it. "OR" Better yet ... Just stay in motels like I said. This way the poor guy working the river can be home after his shift with his family.
I can or will tell you this ... You could have the Good Year Blimp overhead as a marker for your camp , GPS , God and all of HIS wisdom paddling in the bow of your boat, If you do not pay attention to what you are doing and where you are then , suffer sucker.
I'm Retired and will not be there anymore to save you useless arse. Call someone else who cares , if they any of them do now days.
The best directional finder , GPS and anything else is what is between your ears when it comes to being out in the woods or on the water. Exercise it with just day walks in a park and then reverse your path or short padding.
Everything else (electronic , Man Made) can CRASH on you and when it does then what do you do , sit down and cry for mommy or call the cops , good luck the cell phone might not work.
Pay attention to where you are , where you have been and the route back. It does help to look behind you at times , this way a thing called your brain will register the return path.
The best thing a person can have is a compass ( normal one not battery powered ) and a good , updated map with the know how of using both of them.
If I have stepped on your toes , insulated you , ticked you off or done anything where you think I am the #1 Jerk , GOOD , I have you thinking and that just might save your hide one day.
Trust in your self , play with the toys but trust yourself.
Yep , I have the toys in the Jeep and with me on the water but I trust myself more then the toys.
In fact I use the toys to mark good camping spots when on the water and drive the one in the jeep nuts when driving , it does not know the shortcuts on getting to places. After all some nut behind a oak desk with a computer put all the road options in it. Not information from the locals.
Heck the one in the Jeep keeps telling me to take a road that is not there anymore to get home , some good directions , really makes me have faith in it and it has been updated. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Chuck.
