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<blockquote data-quote="ntsqd" data-source="post: 2698659" data-attributes="member: 93138"><p>In the case of my compass, it was usually in a "Boy Scout Bag" in one truck. Far away from any EM generators. It being off put me at the top of a cliff and needing to go down that face to get to where I was supposed to go. I abandoned the test at that point and walked back to where the instructors were because I knew that they wouldn't place students in a perilous location like that. It went back the mfg and they sent a new one. They did not fix it and send it back to me.</p><p></p><p>I followed the Lofgren incident from the beginning of it's coverage. A classic case of underestimating the Mojave Desert. Just because it's ringed by high population centers makes it no less dangerous and quite possibly more dangerous because it is so frequently underestimated. DV is full of similar sad stories. Usually they are the result of multiple bad decisions. But I can say that they're bad decisions sitting here knowing what I know about the area, and knowing that those decisions were made as the best option based on lacking or bad information.</p><p></p><p>If that was my quote, "dryer link", then it is a typo and should have been "dryer lint". The lint burnt sort of OK, it was the Vaseline that didn't want to light.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ntsqd, post: 2698659, member: 93138"] In the case of my compass, it was usually in a "Boy Scout Bag" in one truck. Far away from any EM generators. It being off put me at the top of a cliff and needing to go down that face to get to where I was supposed to go. I abandoned the test at that point and walked back to where the instructors were because I knew that they wouldn't place students in a perilous location like that. It went back the mfg and they sent a new one. They did not fix it and send it back to me. I followed the Lofgren incident from the beginning of it's coverage. A classic case of underestimating the Mojave Desert. Just because it's ringed by high population centers makes it no less dangerous and quite possibly more dangerous because it is so frequently underestimated. DV is full of similar sad stories. Usually they are the result of multiple bad decisions. But I can say that they're bad decisions sitting here knowing what I know about the area, and knowing that those decisions were made as the best option based on lacking or bad information. If that was my quote, "dryer link", then it is a typo and should have been "dryer lint". The lint burnt sort of OK, it was the Vaseline that didn't want to light. [/QUOTE]
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