[pct-l] Trails crossling roads, was: Re: Navigation. Which Compass skills are needed?

[Paul Robison]

i can think of 3 or 4 of those in the first few hundred miles alone.

it is one thing i like about larger maps is you can see "of, we get back off the 
road and on to trail to the east"

of course there's no need to know which way east is in this case,  just left or 
right...  come to road,  turn right, go about 100 yards" would be all you'd need 
to through in the guides.

~Outpost




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From: giniajim <jplynch at crosslink.net>
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Sent: Mon, February 14, 2011 9:37:19 AM
Subject: [pct-l] Trails crossling roads, was: Re:  Navigation. Which Compass 
skills are needed?

I've never seen this brought up.  I know of at least one instance, there's 
probably many more, where the guidebook section ends at a wide, busy road.  The 
next section of the guide starts on the other side.  Just standing on the side 
of the road and looking across, you cannot tell where the trail starts on the 
other side.  Might be something for guide writers to think about.  

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes 
  To: pct-l at backcountry.net 
  Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 12:28 AM
  Subject: Re: [pct-l] Navigation. Which Compass skills are needed?


  ....... As  in when I cross this dirt road, where's the trail on the other 
side?  

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