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发表于 2017-12-19 20:18:08
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Sun was setting down and our snowshoes that we left at the base of the exit chute "were gone".
Before we left for the summit (and after putting our snowshoes here in the morning) I made sure to mark the location in GPS and that the reported location accuracy was high, <10m. Some GPSs display accuracy, some don't. In the beginning, when GPS reports location, it is rather an idea, a rough location +/- 150m, and if you leave it like this you may be out of luck locating what you need. The position gets more accurate if you wait a bit. How long to wait is hard to say, but reported accuracy will tell you. Fortunately, I carried a super reliable hand-held dedicated GPS unit (Garmin GPSmap) and not my Android smart phone. (Being smart is not the same as being reliable, no?) For this kind of stuff, it is really important to have its precise location, or you might end up looking for hours, in the dark, and in the wrong place.
PHOTO: snowshoes are still here, buried under collapsed mass of ice and snow.
Good thing we carried a snow shovel.
..because it was rather deep..luckily, the snow has not self-compacted yet into a concrete-hard mass.
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