Eureka! Bill is right, I totally forgot that I typically draw a "freehand" track, and follow that in my GPS... too many fancy words for this old man! I was confusing my track with my route... seems to me that they should be the same thing!
I use my TOPO software to draw the track, and put in the waypoints at critical points like I mentioned earlier.
thanks Bill for reminding me!
Steve
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