Yep, GPS is a tool. Map reading and land nav is a skill.

I'd add that people should be able to estimate distances hiked, within 10% +/-, over varying terrain with and without a load.


Emergency Medicine - saving the world from themselves, one at a time.

"Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander."

I make the ADL soil themselves. And that makes me very happy smile