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Dropped $190 on a used Garmin for map reading, and it got me more lost than my $8 paper atlas
Everyone in the hiking groups keeps pushing GPS units like they are the only way to find a trail anymore, and I am here to say that is just wrong. Two summers back I bought a used Garmin at a flea market in Vermont for $190 because three people on a camping forum swore I would get turned around without one. That thing led me onto a snowmobile trail that died out in a bog near Killington, and the topo view was so zoomed and cluttered I could not tell a stream from a jeep road. My $8 spiral bound atlas of the Green Mountains, the paper one with the peeling cover, got me back to the car in 40 minutes flat. Same trip, my buddy's phone map showed a lake that has not had water in it since the 80s. Now the unit sits in my glovebox with dead batteries and I still grab the atlas first every single time. Anyone else find that the cheap paper stuff beats the gadgets when the trail signs stop making sense?
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