Thread: How do you carry your topi maps while hunting/tramping ?

Originally Posted by Pengy

Take a look into the settings on freshmap, as mine prints off with grids etc

Makin them easy to see in the dark with a torch.

Originally Posted by ebf

Map pouch/case, ziplock bag ?

Any special tricks you have for folding them ?

Curious to see what other folks use ?

Just standard ziplock bag with a wissel campus extra boot laces and pencil

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Shearer my older Bro had eggzachary the same thing happen to him last year and it threw him out for an hour or so till he recognised where he was..... made sure to check all mine after that one.

Originally Posted by Shearer

On my phone nowadays.

yea download NZtopo50 and use my phone, works with no reception and has a bigger screen on it than my gps, which just sits in the bottom of my bag now

If it is an area I know well I wont bother with a map but for anywhere else I screen shot the area sometimes at a couple of zoom levels of topo and if going to be anywhere near a boundry will sceen shot a wams overlay then email to screen printers to print out and laminate.
My gps batts last many trips but I mostly only ever turn it on and mark camp then turn it off again untill I need to check barometric pressure or mark a shot position.

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Originally Posted by Shearer

Agree with what you are saying but nothing is perfect. I had a Silva compass completely reverse polarity on me a few years back. Thought I was going mad.
Digital maps do have some advantages. The ability to overlay other information and being able to change scale at will is great, but yes, they can fail.
Exactly how many layers of mapping I take depends on the location and duration of a trip. If taking paper it is a laminated colour photocopy of the relevant area.

I've had that happen to a few. That is why I teach other methods of finding a northerly direction, sun, moss on trees, shadows even if you can't see the sun, ...

If leading a group I'd give every member a copy of the area we were going into and I'd take the topo map folded with the areas covered for the day visible in both sides of a zip-lock bag. Always good to get the least experienced members to find where they are in a map in the middle of nowhere as we're travelling and make sure everyone could follow where we were, where we had been and where we were going on the landscape and map. The maps are all useless if they don't know where they are and is the leader is the only one that knows and is incapacitated.

Zip lock bag, cheap and works well.