[at-l] Handbook/Companion/Data Book/Guide ??

[kdpo at pacbell.net (Ken Powers)]

Yeah, Montana USGS maps. HaHahaha! We were using maps from the 80's and
earlier. Since the trail isn't that old, it wasn't on the map. And the CDT
didn't follow existing trail in some places. It is a newly cut trail. Go
ahead - trust the map!

Back on AT topics:
We found areas where we were climbing and the elevation profile said we were
supposed to descend. After hiking the CDT we worried about that we were
lost. Then we realized that the trail had just been rerouted. The maps were
updated, but not the profile.
Ken
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim and/or Ginny Owen" <spiriteagle99@hotmail.com>
To: <wdlists@optonline.net>
Cc: <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 6:49 AM
Subject: [at-l] Handbook/Companion/Data Book/Guide ??


> Walt Daniels wrote:
> >Very good description and I bet things like that are the reason people
> >claim
> >the profiles are wrong. The only "mistakes" I have seen are actually
places
> >where the trail has been relocated and you can hardly expect either the
map
> >or the profile to be correct.
>
>
> In 1992 the maps - and I mean both map and elevation profile - were so
> utterly wrong so often that those of us who actually knew how to read them
> simply gave up using them.  The maps were the single most vilified part of
> the Trail experience by those who made it to Harpers Ferry.  Supposedly,
> they've improved.  Actually, we used the profiles on the SNP maps last
> weekend and they weren't bad at all.
>
> When we took a Land Nav course a few years ago, one of the first things
they
> taught was that you should "trust your map."  Ginny and I both just lost
it
> and couldn't stop laughing. We still joke about that.  Both of us had
> experience with the AT maps - among others.  It got worse when we did the
> CDT - the BLM, USFS and even the TI maps became a long-running family
joke.
> Well, it was either laugh at them or spend a lot of time being very angry
at
> the pervasive errors.
>
> To quote Big Red - "In general, don't take the profiles, the trail or
> yourself to seriously and you'll probably be better off."
>
> Good advice.
>
> Walk softly,
> Jim
>
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