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How Emergency Services View Prospectors
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<blockquote data-quote="Moneybox" data-source="post: 655143" data-attributes="member: 3960"><p>I used to be very good at navigating my way out and back with no navigation aids but that was through the QLD hills and gullies. This featureless country gets me confused very quickly. I usually carry my phone with GPS Kit and on airport and we carry a PLB each. If I intend on goin a long way from camp I'll take water and food in a knapsack but I usually travel light.</p><p></p><p>My first experience at getting disorientated was in the Blue Mountains somewhere I think. I'd worked my way downstream and on the way back I took the wrong branch of the creek without realising it. Once I realised what I'd done I climbed to the top of the range and looked down right on top of my camp on the other side.</p><p></p><p>You don't get the chance to do that in most places here in the mid-west where the terrain is nearly flat. Reliable navigation aids are essential.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Moneybox, post: 655143, member: 3960"] I used to be very good at navigating my way out and back with no navigation aids but that was through the QLD hills and gullies. This featureless country gets me confused very quickly. I usually carry my phone with GPS Kit and on airport and we carry a PLB each. If I intend on goin a long way from camp I'll take water and food in a knapsack but I usually travel light. My first experience at getting disorientated was in the Blue Mountains somewhere I think. I'd worked my way downstream and on the way back I took the wrong branch of the creek without realising it. Once I realised what I'd done I climbed to the top of the range and looked down right on top of my camp on the other side. You don't get the chance to do that in most places here in the mid-west where the terrain is nearly flat. Reliable navigation aids are essential. [/QUOTE]
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