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I am only 30, but the map and compass was drilled into my head in the military. We later used GPS, but I always liked that sense of accomplishment of getting to a location using nothing but a map and compass. I have found though, not everyone can use a map and compass well. You definitely need a good sense of where you have been, where you are, where you are going and being able to identify the smallest land formations on topo maps. It also helps to be able to keep an accurate count of your paces or get to a point where you just “know” how far you have gone. I will always have the map and compass with me. Maybe someday I will come into the technological world and buy an altimeter.
“They definitely swam off as any other fish would. I still do not know how they did it, but we were very amazed that they did swim off.”
“My experience at some alpine lakes in the North Cascades are that the fish, predominantly cutthroat, tend to go into a hibernation stage when the lake freezes over, especially when the lake freezes all the way through. Quite a few years ago, my father pried some large slabs of ice off the surface of a small lake at about 5000' elevation. Underneath he found slush and then a thin bottom layer of water. The cutthroat were in a hibernation state in the thin water layer. I kind of tested this out later in my travels. I caught a few cutthroat at an alpine lake, about 5300' elevation. I place the fish in a snowbank. The next day before we left, we tossed the fish we had not eaten back into the water. The fish floated for a minute and then swam off. I am assuming the snow put them into the hibernation state, allowing them to live without the dissolved oxygen from the water.”
