Re: MtMan-List: direction?

["Lanney Ratcliff" <rat@htcomp.net>]

All this discussion about left or right being upstream or downstream just
doesn't matter....whatever I am looking for is ALWAYS on the other bank
anyhow.  Most of the time it is all I can do to remember which way is
straight up.
Lanney Ratcliff
(How am I doing, Eldon?)
-----Original Message-----
From: RR1LA@aol.com <RR1LA@aol.com>
To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com <hist_text@lists.xmission.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: direction?


>In a message dated 11/10/98 3:20:33 PM Pacific Standard Time,
Tomactor@aol.com
>writes:
>
><< Can any navigator clear this one up for me? >> Thanks Tom, I needed that
>laugh.  and to Longwalker re: the rifle posting, again, AMEN.  YHS  Shootz
>Himself  (PS, not that this will help, <GGG> but: although
>'red,right,returning' is correct for channel markers (headed in or up
stream
>red is on the right) on ALL water and aircraft, of any size, red is left is
>port and never changes. therefore the side of a river, canyon, highway,
>mountian range, path or air corridor you are TALKING about changes with
your
>direction of travel. (i.e. if going north, left is west, if going south
left
>is east.) but, if you need to communicate that info to somebody else, then
a
>compass direction is in order i.e. the EAST SIDE OF THE RIVER), something
the
>NEVER changes, no matter which way you may be headed.
>
>