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Social media and map apps blamed for record rise in mountain rescue callouts (theguardian.com)
9 points by dp-hackernews 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


My scariest hike has been in Scotland. You would think that you cannot get lost on mountains without any tree, and yet I did. Thank god I was near the sea and I knew the road was in that direction.

Google maps is absolutely useless once you reach a mountain, whether you have a car, bicycle or by foot. Yet we are losing map reading skills at alarming rate, replacing it with failed mapping technology. I also noticed we are not reading signs anymore once you follow your navigation system, which is treacherous in mountains




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