[pct-l] GPS

[Halfmile]

Jeaan-Michel,

What I use is not a perfect solution, but it does work very well.

First you will need a memory card for your 60Csx. They have dropped so
much in price you might as well buy a 2 GB one, even thought it is
bigger than you probably need.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171262

You will need Garmin's Mapsource Topo software for North America:

http://www8.garmin.com/cartography/mapSource/topous.jsp

You can easily load maps of all of California, Oregon and Washington
on the card.

In many places the PCT is missing from the Garmin maps. The approach I
use is to create waypoints every half mile along the trail and load
these waypoints into the GPS. If you use Garmins POI loader and load
the waypoints as POI's you can load an unlimited number of POI's
(waypoints). You are not limited to 1000 if you use POI's. . The
POI/waypoints have the added benefit in that they can be used to
accurately judge distance, since each is exactly 1/2 mile apart.

http://www8.garmin.com/products/poiloader/

You can go to my web site at http://www.pctmap.net and download
printable maps, waypoints, tracks, and Google Earth files for the
California sections A - K. Unfortunately I have not hiked north of
section K yet, so I don't have any data beyond that.

-Halfmile





On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Jean-Michel
<jean.michel.villard at free.fr> wrote:
> I am French and I intend to hike the PCT in 2009. For that I am experiencing the use of GPS (Garmin 60Csx). Does someone know where I can get GPS maps in order to thru-hike PCT?
>
>  Jean-Michel
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