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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 12/15/2005, 8:33 pm Post subject: Digital Topos and the Flu |
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Here's what a backpacking computer geek does when he's stuck in the house with the flu.
http://thirdrockfrom.org/topos.htm _________________ "Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them." John Muir |
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Davis2001R6
Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy
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Posted: 12/15/2005, 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks IGO, good info for anyone looking into software. After looking at that I must say I liked the info that the National Geographic maps had a lot better. Garmin's was way too busy. Delorme looked nice but lacked a info. |
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Cholla
Joined: 26 Oct 2005 Posts: 379
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Posted: 12/15/2005, 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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Cool. Thanks for posting this. Next time I'll go around the big rock and not try and climb over it.
Actually, you have taught me to trust the map and not my brain. It's easy to make a mistake when in some popular areas you come across social trails that can confuse you. I have also been mislead once by trusting information by an "authority" that lead me off course.
Nothing like a good map and knowing how to read it.
I also like the Trails Illustrated maps, but usually will carry two different maps in a new area. |
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 12/15/2005, 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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There are multiple layers on both the Garmin and the Delorme. Some I have on in the images, some I have turned off. There is a bunch more to turn on in the Delorme, which is my favorite. The cool thing about Garmin is when it get's too busy you can drop back the amount of elevation between contour lines and still keep the same scale, kinda like just errasing every other contour line.
I've always been a fan of trails Illustrated, I've got a bunch of these maps predating National Geographic. I beleive National Geographic simply scans the paper maps from the looks of the graphics. When I plan cross county, I studdy something in all of them before I go. _________________ "Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them." John Muir |
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 12/15/2005, 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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The art of orienteering will improve but x amount with increased comfort with map and compass. In time a basic knowledge of why the land is the way it is is what will really get you through in the canyon. You made a great point in your post. Years ago the best way to stay found on the Hermit or Boucher was not to avoid cliffing out or heading aimlessly into never never land but to stop within 3 steps, and back step 3 steps, on a trail that all of a sudden vaporises. In that spot you could then turn around, look back up behind you and see dozens, if not hundreds of criss-crossing meandorings heading in all directions. Burrows.
I guess they are all but gone now; it's sure easier to pick up the hiking trail these days that's for sure.
Did you ever put in for an Escalante permit? They took a bunch of money out of my checking account so I know I got something but haven't seen the paper yet. _________________ "Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them." John Muir |
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