{"id":1153,"date":"2007-05-01T05:52:38","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T10:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2007-05-01T05:52:38","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T10:52:38","slug":"buying-a-gps-unit-for-hiking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/05\/01\/buying-a-gps-unit-for-hiking\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying a GPS unit for hiking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/61614\/GPS-for-hiking\">A thread at Ask Metafilter offers advice on buying a GPS<\/a>. Among the responses:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just as general advice, I got my first GPS unit last December, and I recommend that you get yours used off eBay. The older models still kick ass, and you get to learn all the GPS receiver jargon and tradeoffs with a lot less outlay. When I first got the idea, I was looking at a very expensive model, but then dropped down to a middling unit and then further to a used one and I couldn&#8217;t be happier.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>It all depends on where you hike. If you hike near large bodies of water, near canyon walls, under heavy canopies of trees, <em>any<\/em> GPS unit will have errors. Satellite signals either bounce (water, rock) or degrade (trees) in those conditions.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nI took a Magellan GPS on a hike near Indian Arm some years ago (Dilly Dally trail). The hike featured a 5,000 climb near a large body of water, in a very cliffy or overgrown area. My altimeter watch and my GPS were 1,000 feet apart in altitude measurement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I keep fixing to get ready to get a GPS receiver but never seem to get around to it.  I think it&#8217;s toy overload.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thread at Ask Metafilter offers advice on buying a GPS. Among the responses: Just as general advice, I got my first GPS unit last December, and I recommend that you get yours used off eBay. The older models still&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/05\/01\/buying-a-gps-unit-for-hiking\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}