[pct-l] PCT Map Programs Redux

[bdwhitsell at comcast.net (bdwhitsell@comcast.net)]

I used DeLorme's Topo computer program to print maps for a short hike near Campo.  Luckly, I also had the guide book maps.  The delorme maps got me off trail even before I got to lake morena. I had never hiked that section before so I was using the maps a lot.  After that I decided to stick with maps by people who had actually hiked the trail.

Bryan W
> A while back there was some discussion about sources of PCT maps.  Some talk 
> was centered on computer programs...during which I extolled the 3-D virtues of 
> DeLorme's Topo.  I have been doing some virtual hiking to get me through the 
> winter, and I have discovered that Topo has some serious errors.  I have yet 
> to check diligently, but... for example... at mile 75.7 in SoCal section E, 
> where the trail skirts the badlands just before Cottonwood Creek.  Topo shows 
> the 
> trail following the road straight up through the badlands, which if you take, 
> will get you there, but only after seven or eight up and downs totaling more 
> than a thousand feet of climbing ( and dropping down). 
> 
>  At Tehachapi Pass it shows the trail going up the ridge west of Waterfall 
> Canyon and over the summit of Red Peak, rather than crossing through the canyon 
> and up its east ridge, staying well away from the peak.  Who knows how many 
> other errors there are, I have just begun to look.  
> 
> 
> No Way
> Ray Echols
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