[pct-l] Maps Etc.- Most Used ??

[John Abela]

I would be in for a group-buy once Halfmile gets them his latest updates
that he mentioned last week.



On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Jim & Jane Moody <moodyjj at comcast.net>wrote:

>
>
> Sourdough,
>
>
>
> I hope you're not expecting 4 answers to the same question.
>
>
>
> Last year I carried Halfmile's maps and corresponding pages torn from
> Yogi's PCT Handbook.  I also sent myself pages from the Data Book and the
> Guidebook, but I quickly found them redundant, not as useful, and unread.
> The Guidebook's maps, being in black and white and at a larger scale,
> weren't useful at all.
>
>
>
> Many hikers carried Eric the Black's Atlas and liked it.  Several times I
> was hiking with people who had different maps, and we used both or all three
> to confirm where we were or where we should go.  This was especially the
> case in the Sierra, where wayfinding is more complicatred by the fact that
> the trail in covered with snow and therefore invisible.  Through the Sierra,
> I strongly suggest adding the Tom Harrison maps.
>
>
>
> By the way, you can download and print Halfmile's maps for free, or you can
> buy the whole set from a printer in Portland,  " ... Lazerquick (
> www.lazerquick.com ).  The print quality is excellent, much better than my
> printer at home or any of the many laser printers at work.
>
> The prices seem reasonable considering the quality. Lazerquick's price is
> $75 (plus Shipping) for 2-sided color printing of all my maps the PCT. ...
> They offer discounts for quantities of 10 or 20 if enough hikers wanted to
> go in together do a group order.
>
> The Lazerquick I have been dealing with is in Portland Oregon. The email is
> center48 at lazerquick.com ; the phone number is 503-228-6306. Ask them about
> "Halfmile's PCT Maps" and they should know what you are talking about. "
>
>
>
> I did this and liked them for several reasons - (1) they're printed on both
> sides of the paper, which saves weight; (2) the laser printing is more
> water-resistant than inkjet printing; and (3) the time-savings over printing
> out all the HM map sheets on my slow inkjet printer.
>
>
>
> Mango
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Pct-L mailing list
> Pct-L at backcountry.net
> To unsubcribe, or change options visit:
> http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l
>
> List Archives:
> http://mailman.backcountry.net/pipermail/pct-l/
>