I had always wanted to see a backpacking map and my home town set to the same scale.
Like this:
It's amazing what a bit of elevation, topography and solitude (not to mention the pack weight!) can do to make distance scales change. The Sierra sample is the neighborhood that we backpacked in 2009, so I can envision a few of our camps and remember the effort. The rewards for that effort were spectacular. I've walked home from downtown before, and it's charming in its own way to see the homes and yards - and the (paved) routes too numerous to count. Similar yet incomparable.
And now I know.
Like this:
It's amazing what a bit of elevation, topography and solitude (not to mention the pack weight!) can do to make distance scales change. The Sierra sample is the neighborhood that we backpacked in 2009, so I can envision a few of our camps and remember the effort. The rewards for that effort were spectacular. I've walked home from downtown before, and it's charming in its own way to see the homes and yards - and the (paved) routes too numerous to count. Similar yet incomparable.
And now I know.
