Printing Maps - Continental Divide Trail

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#1

If anybody else has procrastinated like I have with printing off the Ley maps, try going to Staples. They are offering a 20% rebate to all copy center purchases over $50. I just got mine back today, laser printed on regular 8.5x11 and they look fantastic. I lucked out because my neighbor’s new wife works there so she was able to hook me up with her 40% employee discount. Instead of $150 for the printing, it only ran me $80, plus the 20% off on top of that!! Got to love how things always seem to work out.
PS. The files I printed off where all the MT, WY, CO, and NM topos plus the ‘Landscape’ file and ‘Large’ file. If I were to do it again, I would skip printing out the ‘Landscape’ file. They are just random misc duplicates of some of the topos and ‘Large’ maps. Would have saved myself about 50 prints. Any one have any idea what that file was there for?

Pepper PA

#2

Wish I knew about this BEFORE I started printing all my maps last week. Sigh…

Oh well! :slight_smile:

SoBo or NoBo this year? Going SoBo myself…

Paul Mags

#3

Nacho and I will be heading south starting from Mt Robson on the GDT sometime after fathers day. Plan is to be back in the states by mid July and make good time to get thru the Juans before the snow starts flying. Less than 3 months now!

Pepper PA

#4

Way cool! Just realized I read about your planned GDT/CDT SoBo hike before. Best of luck! I’ve seen Chris’ (Suge) GDT journal and it is a “TO DO” hike in the future for sure!

I plan on starting July 4th from Glacier (Independence day seemed a good day!) and hope to be out of the San Juans before the snow flies as well. You just may catch up to me…if so, we’ll have to have some Fat Tire beers. :slight_smile:

Paul Mags

#5

what is the GDT?

apowens

#6

The Great Divide Trail

The main route of the GDT, as outlined in Hiking Canada’s Great Divide Trail , is 1198.4 km long, 63 per cent of which exists in Alberta with the rest in British Columbia. The route crosses the Continental Divide over 30 times and incorporates 106.6 km of active road and several kilometres of railway corridor.
The highest point on the GDT is an unnamed pass at 2590 m. The lowest point on the whole route is 1055 m at the Old Fort Point trailhead on the bank of the Athabasca River in Jasper—a difference of 1535 m from the highest point on the route.

The GDT passes through a number of protected areas, including six national parks: Glacier (USA), Waterton Lakes, Banff, Kootenay, Yoho and Jasper. The GDT also passes through seven provincial parks: Akamina-Kishinena, Elk Lakes, Peter Lougheed, Height of the Rockies, Mount Assiniboine, Mount Robson and Kakwa Lake. The route also includes the Beehive Natural Area, Kananaskis Country, the White Goat Wilderness and the Willmore Wilderness Area. The five forest districts through which the GDT passes are the Castle, Bow/Crow, Cranbrook, Golden and Robson Valley

Dave

#7

The landscape versions are on the CD for on-screen viewing, so you don’t have to rotate your head to see them on-screen (see the .html “view page”). The portrait versions are all in their own directories to make it easier to batch-print a set. Sorry about any confusion.

-Jonathan

J Ley