[pct-l] Maps Organization

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good afternoon, Wally,

I acquired a batch of 8.5” x 11” capacity Ziplocs, and I carry two of them.
One has most of the maps for the resupply section, and it is kept
well-protected inside the back of my pack.  The other one is for daily
operations.  A sack can be seen at:
http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=265247

Each night I estimate where I’ll be through the next day and put those
sheets in the daily sack to replace the “used” ones.  The first two of the
day’s maps face outward, and get replaced – two at a time -- as required
through the day when I take breaks.  The daily sack is kept somewhere handy
to the outside of the pack.

With that method, if I lose or dunk the daily sack I’m on the average only
a half a day away from having a map to look at.  That worked pretty well,
except for ’08 when I had the maps between Belden and Castella in a Post
Office that was closed by a wildland fire so I just hiked without maps for
a couple of hundred miles.

Enjoy your planning,

Steel-Eye

-Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye
http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09/

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Wally Neal <wallyneal at cox.net> wrote:

> What's the best way to organize Halfmiles' maps? Just leaving them loose
> seems like an invitation to a mess, and probably loss of some pages. How
> about using 3/8 inch plastic comb binders on each section? The weight of
> two
> sections assembled this way would be slightly less than 3.5 ounces. The
> holes for the combs punch out some of the GPS info on one side, but the
> same
> info is on the other side of each map.
>
> Walljito
>
>