by stry » Mon 08 Feb, 2021 2:23 pm
[quote="wildwanderer"]
I'm not sure when you reference 'bee lines' if you're referring to my image post of a bearing line?
Easy, I wasn't
But honestly I think your disparagement of 'bee lines' is misplaced.
Equally easy. I didn't disparage bee lines/bearing lines. My post quite clearly (I thought) pointed out their drawback in certain circumstancesi
They are a tool used in a specific set of circumstances. Usually to keep heading in the right direction when walking in terrain with minimal other physical indicators/features of location.
Easy again - Yes.
There seems to a degree of interpolation evident in the conclusions some are jumping to in this thread. I don't see anything to suggest "them and us" or closed minds. It is apparent that nearly all use a combination of old and new tech in a balance that suits their individual needs. This is good.
My concern remains those who live in the screen and sacrifice awareness of where they are on the ground by doing so. This thread suggests that those who do so are few in number, here at least. This also is good.
As for barbed wire undies - I like a lateral thinker, and the obvious benefit would be that the pain (if one slept in them) would distract one from the pain of the CCF, and in my case the crippled feet from KT26s and Volleys.
BTW I readily acknowledge the benefits to some of both those types of footwear, and have tried both, with my feet being equally unimpressed by both.
Apologies for drifting off topic, but this thread is unnecessarily being made a little adversarial, and some contributors need to lighten up a little.