Last weekend was the second time in a month that I was with people who think that turning on the GPS in their car is useful when trying to find your way around on backcountry roads in a rural area. I can’t understand why people don’t at least keep a road atlas in their cars [...]

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In my last post, I wrote that you need a New York Gazetteer in order to find the trail heads in the Catskills. It dawned on me today that many people don’t have a clue what a Gazetteer is anymore. So let me explain.

A Gazetteer is a set of very detailed topographic maps used [...]

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