Topo Maps
Brooklynne and I have become great camping partners and we're planning a trip to Utah in August to backpack through the Cache-Wasatch National Forest from Hardware Ranch to Bear Lake. We expect the trip will take about 4 days but we were having trouble knowing for sure until we took our recent trip out west and picked up some maps in Ogden. But for anyone else planning a trip, I found this great website where you can order custom topo maps. The other neat feature is that you can preview the maps online before buying. Since we have our maps already, we haven't tried the service, but if anyone else needs maps for planning a trip, here's the link:
Customized Topo Maps and Aerial Photos - myTopo.com
If you order anything, submit a review here so Brooke and I can know if this is how we should get our maps in the future.
You can also get custom maps at REI if you have one around. It is pretty neat they have this machine and you tool around with it and you can get good maps. I bought one one time just for fun and you could see my house on it. I used it to find four wheeling trails in east durham when I had the jeep. Ask Elizabeth, dave about how that one went.
Cool. That would be alot easier. I'll have to check out our local REI. After examining the maps tonight over the phone with Brooklynne's Dad, I realized that the trail we'll be on goes off the side of the map we have and the part that's missing is a key section. So we'll need one more map before we go.