[pct-l] MAPS

[jamesfmiller at hotmail.com]

As a person who bailed to Bridgeport because of the weather what is missing  
from Halfmile and Eric the Blacks maps is information about where the side  
trails lead. A Forest Service, all female, trail crew helped us with a bail  
out route.
Thank you you young women who are maintenaning the PCT in the Hoover  
Wilderness 

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-----Original message-----
From: surferskir at aol.com
To: lwshee at gmail.com
Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
Sent: Mon, Jun 24, 2013 17:55:30 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: [pct-l] MAPS


Bi-navigational!  Wow,you just invented a new term for the next edition of  
the dictionary.

Keep on hiking.
--Dennis--


-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Sheehan <lwshee at gmail.com>
To: surferskir <surferskir at aol.com>
Cc: pct-l <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Mon, Jun 24, 2013 10:40 am
Subject: Re: [pct-l] MAPS



I wholeheartly agree! But then I learned navigation in the 70's. I love  
halfmiles maps and there are lots of other regular maps out there. It is  
just too easy to get them, reading them could only take a short course and  
for 2,600 miles an afternoon in the woods with a teacher is a small price to  
pay (and they are lightweight!) Except for snow we don't use and haven't  
needed a GPS; but when you do need them they are great. We are  
bi-navigational and proud of it!!
Linda Sheehan
PS- Mountaineers and Mazamas in the NW offer lots of courses on this.




On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:53 PM,  <surferskir at aol.com> wrote:


I am  a part time resident of Mammoth Lakes.
21 June I was day hiking the Duck Pass out of Lake Mary in the Mammoth Lakes  
area, about 1.5 miles from the trailhead, and I ran into a gentleman (didn't  
get his name, trail or otherwise), PCT thru hiker, who asked,  "How much  
further to Reds Meadows"
I replied, "you are on the wrong trail if you are trying to get ot Reds  
Meadows.  You are about 7 miles off".
He asked, "Isn't this the PCT?"
"No", I said.  You are about 5 trail miles off the PCT.  You should have  
taken the left fork at the trail split below Duck Lake.  Don'tyou have a  
map?"
He replied, "Yes on my cell phone, but the battery died abut 4 days ago".

All of which brings up the point:  why don't people have maps with them  
anymore?  (I doubt if the guy could use a compass with a map).  GET A MAP  
and take it with you.
I have a GPS and a cell phone.  But I still hike with a paper map and a  
compass. Even though I haven't used the compass in years.
If anyone reading this site gets anything out of this site information it is  
TAKE A MAP. Learn how to read it at least.  Don't assume that every trail  
junction will be marked.

P.S. Also ran into the hiking celloist and his support Emma on their way to  
Mammoth for their next concert.  Nicecouple.

--Dennis--
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