[pct-l] re: maps

[mark dixon <mdixon@bigsky.net>]

Rebecca,

I did exactly that last year. I bought all 4 Gazetteers and cut them up to
go along with my PCT Guide book sections. These maps seemed to have the
right scale to compliment the maps in the guide book. It was nice to be
able to see "the big picture" with the Gazetteer maps. I tried to mark my
campsites all throughout the trip so it could go along with my journal. The
guide book maps are USGS topos, and at about $3 each you'd spend a lot more
money. My friend had forest service maps and wilderness area maps that were
nice, but just more paper to carry. It was nice to have the more detailed
wilderness maps through the Sierras though.

Oh, I updated the snow pages this morning:
http://missoula.bigsky.net/mdixon/snow/snow.htm

Mark Dixon


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From:          Jeffrey Olson <jjolson@u.washington.edu>
Date:          Tue, 19 Jan 1999 21:54:48 -0800
Subject:       Re: [pct-l] Grizzly & cougar
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One of my favorite stories concerns a hike my brother, sister, and
brother-in-law did into the Enchantments of Washington one late fall.  The
Enchantments are a mini-southern Sierra, quite intimate and mind boggling at
the same time.  At any rate we arrived at Aasgaard Pass in a rainstorm and set
up our tent just below the summit.  Quite wild and a whiteout.  The rain went
away and I chose to sleep under the stars.  I woke up the next morning and
while stumbling around marveling at the immense and humbling beauty, noticed a
paw print in the sand, about a foot behind where my head had been resting.  It
was a cougar print.  The quiet cuss must have leaned over and sniffed my noggin
and decided I wasn't worth keeping.  I took pictures and it still makes a great
story...

Jeffrey Olson
Seattle, WA...where the rain just keeps on fallin...

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