Misc Pathways - "How well do you know the roads in your AO?"

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Old Gray Mare

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Ok so was watching a video that asked the question: "How well do you know the roads in your AO?".

I realized I know "pathways" I routinely use; the grocery store, bank, favorite dinner etc. Also noticed, getting older, it's gotten harder to memorize new pathways. Wander off those pathways without the trusty GPS? Yeah no. So a new Sunday Drive program has been instituted to see what's off the beaten path....
 
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O2BNOK

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Long time birder. I know them very well.
Old Gray Mare said:
Ok so was watching a video that asked the question: "How well do you know the roads in your AO?".

I realized I know "pathways" I routinely use; the grocery store, bank, favorite dinner etc. Also noticed, getting older, it's gotten harder to memorize new pathways. Wander off those pathways without the trusty GPS? Yeah no. So a new Sunday Drive program has been instituted to see what's off the beaten path....
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Old Gray Mare

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I'm making an effort to learn. One thing I noticed google is not even close to up to date with their satellite maps. Yes there are a crap ton of military bases on the island. I'd expect those to be dated, maybe misleading or blotted out. No, this is non-military properties and related access/right of ways. YMMV
 
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WalknTrot

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Living here all my life. I know roads that the maps don't know. I know where the roads used to be 100 years ago. I know where the "lost" RR spur grades are from back in the late 1800/early 1900's when the old growth white pines were first logged off. I know where the old fencelines are, and where the deer trails are.

Hate GPS. Never used it in my life. Don't need some nitwit robot nagging me about where to turn. I can read a compass, read a map, and can follow my own sense of direction and the maps in my head.
 
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oops

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LOL…given my family’s propensity to run ridges n backroads…then where I worked…I can safely say there’s prolly less than a dozen roads …backroads …farm roads n such that I don’t know within the 2 counties…sometimes even farther out…just don’t necessarily know the new 911 renamed names of some of the roads…now…there’s places some of the old roads no longer go…mostly due to new owners closin them off to public use…sigh…either they closed‘m off with wire or structures…
 
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Wildwood

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DH is an avid dirt bike rider and he knows every pig and goat trail around here and a work around or two. So does my son but me, not so much. Add that to the fact that I have no sense of direction and I'm in trouble. However, my knowledge of the main and side roads is good enough...just not the trails. Maybe when this garden is done, I should do a little homework.
 
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WalknTrot

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Greywolf036 said:
Suggestion, get a DELORME map of your State. It's a topographic map,
Consider it a NON Electronic GPS.
guarantee not to malfunction during a power outage,EMP , ect., unless you don't at the minimum, have a candle, or flashlight, or lose your glasses.
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I own them for several states, and keep copies in the truck and in the house, but there are obvious mistakes and omissions if you really know an area well.

Good help - the best out there - for more unfamiliar areas though.
 
patriotgal

patriotgal

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Forgot GPS was still on after a trip to big city. Was barely down first back road when I got the message that GPS signal was lost. So nice to know the back roads are still back roads in spite of google sending out there little car last year.
 
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L.A.B.

L.A.B.

Goodness before greatness.
I have a ballistic nylon briefcase I call my black bag of map’s. The rest are in my waterproof-rubberized delivery pouch about 16” x 18”.

With three generations of GPS, I still love my sighting and orienteering compasses, and utilize my favorite tool, a LAT-LON skew for extracting map info, and plugging it into my GPS GO-TO data points.

With all the dead reckoning I did as a kid, and as second nature as it was; what drove me to learn orienteering and map reading was filing a few mining claims for my dad and his prospector friends in the early 80’s.
 
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