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ECC
at Wed Feb 13 19:13:06 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by ECC ]
I bought a very high quality hand-held GPS last fall and used it for my last trip to the Sandhills in September.
With it I was able to "mark" every snake I found and enter detailed information about each find. I also bought a topographic mapping program to go with it which is on my computer and syncs with the plotted points from the GPS.
The result is that I was able to download all of my finds to this map and see the location of every find while I was down there - good information for the next time. I even printed the map with plots to a .pdf file and emailed it to a few friends that were headed in there a week or so after me. I plan to mark every find from here on out with this device.
IN addition -- before I "jumped off" and headed away from the vehicle I "marked" the location of the vehicle. That let me walk as far into the woods as I wanted without the fear of getting lost - because this device pointed me back to the vehicle. It's not like we were in Alaska --- but the Sandhills is a big place and you can get lost in there since it all looks the same once you get back in it.
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GPS - - ECC, Wed Feb 13 19:13:06 2008