A tourist was rescued from a sub-peak of Crown Mountain on Tuesday morning
after following a misleading trail on a map on his phone and getting into
technical terrain. The incident has been well covered in the local media:
As mentioned in the articles above, the hiker got into trouble by following
a trail that in fact wasn't a hiking trail at all, but an exposed
scrambling route. (The approach or exit for this scramble is illegally in
the Capilano watershed.) This raises the question of how much maps from
phone apps can be trusted to provide correct and useful information.
Steve Jones has recently written about this very topic which is well worth
reading:
But the takeaway here isn't so much that another tourist got into trouble
on the North Shore. It's about asking yourself this question: what map
would you be relying on if you went for a hike in a place you were only
visiting? Would it just be what you could get on your phone? Or would you
look for a printed map?
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发表于 2018-10-15 10:45:49
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