Subscription info . Without GPS suggests that our lives are too filled with technology we don t need, and that Tim has decided to draw his personal line in the sand just short of the use of global positioning systems. As a personal decision that is quite acceptable. His suggestion that only fools and other unsavoury characters who have no wilderness skills would consider using GPS, could be found offensive and needlessly judgemental.
Technology is simply an extension of our own senses.
My muscles are strong, but I use a paddle. My eyes are okay, but I do wear glasses. If I want to see farther I use binoculars. I can talk and you can hear me. We use kevlar boats, carbon fibre paddles, PFDs, layered polyester clothing, ultralight tents and poles, synthetic filled sleeping bags, pressurized gas stoves and marine two-way radios.