[pct-l] Pct-L Digest, Vol 132, Issue 2

[Jay Bruins]

A "soft" copy would be digital as opposed to a "hard", paper copy.

A note on JLey: while the Avenza maps are by far the easiest format to
reference, however, you should also download a copy of the current maps as
some of my frustrations were definitely caused by not referencing the
latest, which other hikers were sometimes better about.

Armstrong

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 10:36 AM marmot marmot <marmotwestvanc at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you. What do you mean by a soft copy of Ley’s map? I don’t
> understand the use of the word. I’m guessing that that info is better than
> the sometimes 20 year old maps that were available in ‘96. A few years ago
> I rehiked the San Juans. I was amazed at the amount of trail and signs. I
> touched and sometimes hugged those signs.
> Marmot
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jul 13, 2020, at 10:22 AM, Tim Umstead <tumstead96 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 
> >>
> >>
> >> We did the CDT in  2017 and we choise to hike the Gila high route.  The
> >> offical route has very little water on it and In '17 most of the sources
> >> were dry.  The Gila high route starts after Doc Campbell's.  It stays
> above
> >> the Gila, to the souh, and had plenty of water souces.  It also had a
> lot
> >> of pine trees keeping it cooler then the river valley.  The high route
> was
> >> solid trail, which is uncommon in NM.  The high route does cross the
> Gila
> >> toward the end of the Gila alt, so you have a choise of finishing the
> high
> >> route or the Gila alt, a little ways before Snow Lake.
> >>
> >
> >
> >> I'm not the greatest fan with Guthooks app, but it is the only option on
> >> the CDT.  We carried paper maps, Gunhook's app, and a soft copy of Ley's
> >> maps.  As our trip progressed I relayed more and more on the app, but I
> >> still carried the maps.  Especially on the CDT, being able to, very
> >> quickly, know where I was made my navagation a lot easier.  Becarful
> with
> >> the social infor on Guthooks app.  The use of that information is hit
> and
> >> miss.  You might read about a water tank being dry and when you get
> there
> >> find it full.  Then rereading the social entry you discover that it was
> 3
> >> years old.  I would normaly argue that old data should be deleted, but I
> >> remember one entry that was over five years old.  It gave directions on
> >> what colored wires had to be connected where to get the water pump
> >> running.  Without that information we would have had a long dry walk to
> the
> >> next water source.
> >>
> >
> > Ley map: I wish he would cut out all the very old information.  That
> being
> > said Ley's maps showed alt's that the app and maps did not have.  There
> > were times this was very useful.  I is not a big deal to get an app like
> > Avenza Maps and a soft copy of Ley's maps.  That way they can be
> consulted
> > as necessary.
> >
> > The Ravens
> > PCT 96, 15, CDT 17, AT 19
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