Originally Posted By: IzzyJG99
.... But my concern is that people will go out into the middle of nowhere relying on a GPS and having no other navigational aids or training...and the batteries and dying and then the people follow shortly after. Such is the downside of all electric power, though. It doesn't last.


Precisely, I was on a boat one time that the LORAN failed (yup, that long ago) and found out that nobody was really quite sure of where we were, had no charts and had no bearing compass.
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May set off to explore without any sense of direction or how to return.