{"id":3825,"date":"2011-02-28T07:41:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T12:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2011-02-28T12:14:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T17:14:44","slug":"morning-read-gps-leads-travelers-astray-in-adirondacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/02\/28\/morning-read-gps-leads-travelers-astray-in-adirondacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  GPS leads travelers astray in Adirondacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/Adirondacks-puzzle-GPS-1032617.php\">Albany Times-Union<\/a> ran a fun piece over the weekend looking at the way GPS navigation systems lead motorists astray when driving through the Adirondacks.<\/p>\n<p>Writer Brian Nearing tells the tale of a couple returning home to Syracuse from a wedding in Plattsburgh who wound up axle-deep in snow on a snowmobile trail.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Asked how they got there &#8212; more than 100 miles from home &#8212; the  sheepish driver said his GPS unit directed him to turn off Route 8 near  Speculator, Hamilton County, and onto Fly Creek Road. But the seasonal  road isn&#8217;t plowed during the winter, when it&#8217;s a marked  snowmobile\u00a0trail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The snowmobile trail was packed hard, so he  could drive on it. But when he went off the trail, the vehicle sank into  the powder,&#8221; [state forest ranger Tom] Eakin said. Despite being dressed for a wedding, the  driver managed to hike up the trail until he got cell service to call  911 for\u00a0help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eakin&#8217;s advice to travelers using GPS in the Park?\u00a0 &#8220;As soon as it tells you to turn off a paved road you should start questioning it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like wisdom to me.\u00a0 The sad part is that I&#8217;ve gotten that lost &#8212; and gotten stuck on roads that remote &#8212; without a GPS that I could blame.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/Adirondacks-puzzle-GPS-1032617.php\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albany Times-Union ran a fun piece over the weekend looking at the way GPS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,5631],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}