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Appreciation post: a ranger in the Wind River Range showed me how to use my phone's GPS offline
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brown.wesley1h ago
That's a solid skill to learn, but it makes me wonder about the bigger picture. Are we training a whole generation to rely on a battery and a satellite signal instead of a paper map and land features? My granddad could find his way by the moss on trees and the sun. Now if your phone dies in a storm, you're just hoping you cached the right map section. It feels like we're trading one kind of knowledge for another without always keeping the old skills alive.
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