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

Originally Posted by Carpe Diem

Gotta always allow for tech meltdown @ebf - Honestly have a gps, phone with topo but I'll allways carry a silva compass and topomap (laminated) or actual map in zip loc in my belt kit.

Just the way I was taught.. tech fails once, bugger - twice, shame on it - I don't take a map and compass - shame on me!,

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.

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.