Actually the newer receivers with the high sensitivity chip sets DO work under trees. They are amazing!



For most people a GPS with on-board maps provides a knowledge of nearby points of interest and the distance to those points. For the James Kim family that kind of information would have been EXTREMELY valuable and potentially lifesaving.

For those who "just want to get back to where they were" or those with a paper map and the skills to transfer coordinates from GPS to map, and vice versa, a basic GPS is enough, but for all others I sincerely recommend having a mapping GPS with appropriate maps loaded.

Of course, the odds are that the paper maps James was carrying didn't have coordinates drawn on it.

Ken