Navigating while traveling through the back country has always been a challenge, and while paper maps are always a good backup tool to have, this is 2016. Over the past few years I've utilized multiple navigation platforms ranging from Delorme Atlases to iPad based applications (MotionX and Gaia GPS) and have found all of them to have their own pros and cons. So when Tony … [Read more...]
Maps: Digital or Paper
The argument of digital or paper maps will most likely continue as long as the waxed cotton vs. gore-tex debate. Which means forever, unless Filson and Barbour stop selling coats. I remember growing up in my fathers red Volkswagen Golf with a manual transmission, AC/DC or George Thorogood in the tape deck, and a Maryland road map in the seat-back pocket. I spent some of the … [Read more...]
Anything but Asphalt: Mapping & More
46,629. For simplicity’s sake lets round that up to 50,000. That’s roughly the total mileage of unpaved roads in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania combined. 6,543,616 – lets call this one 6.5M – or more accurately the number of acres of Federal Land in those 4 states. So why the raw numbers? Simply to highlight that there are more opportunities to get … [Read more...]
