All,

The idea that "anything electronic can fail and therefore is unreliable" and therefore should not be used is a total load of horse feathers.

Your car has an electronic brain, do you not drive it to the trail head anyway?

Do you not own or use a cell phone because it MIGHT break? A compass can break too. Your shoelaces can break, etc, etc.

So give me a break about GPS being unreliable. Yes sure maybe a nearby nuke might burn its circuits out - ha ha. Speaking of which, a gps IS reliable enough to deliver a nuke.

Geez anything CAN break. Its a popular misconception to single out electronics. The saving grace of a GPS is that the user CANNOT mess with the programs.

Jim