Kirby said: >I was wondering why people haven't heard from the guy in Langford? Answers a lot of silence. At least you were able to make it out paddling. Karen's father died several weeks ago and it put a crimp into the paddling end of it. Along with everything else. Kirby< Not sure if the above was meant to be sent to the list, but anyway, sorry for your wife's loss. We only get one father in life. Thought I'd mention that almost everyone had your Coastal Recreation maps of Nootka Sound on our recent trip. I understand this is a first edition that we all had, but a new one is now just out, and like all the new editions, shows greater demarcation between land mass and bodies of water - something the original maps lacked and were not liked for by those unable to do the mental three-dimensional overlay. One of the paddlers had used colored pencil to "blue-in" the water areas and "green-in" the land mass, but the new versions should be much better now I understand. Some of the guys I was paddling with are planning a short trip in the future to Indian Arm (BC mainland coast), so I'll let them know there is a new map out on the area. As for the information on the maps, the only complaint I hear consistently is that some of the campsites marked are less than ideal. Perhaps a notation should be added to the more widely know campsites that are of poor quality, but like I've said to users of your maps before, who is going to make those subjective decisions. Personally, I'd love it if your maps didn't exist, then there would be less folks paddling to and fro, and more quality wilderness experience for me. :-) But hey, everyone is paddling out there these days; Heather Harbord and Doug Alderson have new guide books out, so what the heck. Besides, well-informed paddlers are much safer, so I've always felt the recreation maps provide a valued service (at a moderate price) for the paddling community. So when do you start the Alaska series? :-) Doug Lloyd (who has no connection to Kirby's company, being just a happy user of the maps) Victoria BC (Langford actually, a dog-patch town on the outskirts of Victoria) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
"Doug Lloyd" <dalloyd_at_telus.net> wrote: > Thought I'd mention that almost everyone had your Coastal Recreation maps of > Nootka Sound on our recent trip. [snip] > As for the information on the maps, the only complaint I hear consistently > is that some of the campsites marked are less than ideal. Perhaps a notation > should be added to the more widely know campsites that are of poor quality, > but like I've said to users of your maps before, who is going to make those > subjective decisions. I used an original edition of Kirby's Nootka Sound map, back in 1997, and found it useful. We were mainly on the Esperanza Inlet side, but edged down to the upper end of Nootka Sound. There was one campsite marked on the map (on Nooka, just opposite the N end of Bodega Island) which was not usable (underwater at high tide), but I figured that was just a cartographer's error or something, and blew it off. On the other side of the coin, if that site had not been marked, we might not have gone down that route, and might have selected a different area. As it was, we had to trash a horde of small alders and make our own site, on ground recently logged, maybe six inches above high water. Made for a memorable night. In any case, I did not find so much detail the map ruined my sense of adventure, and would not want campsite quality to be marked. That's part of the fun -- to find these things out for yourself. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
> Some of the guys I was paddling with are planning a short trip in the future > to Indian Arm (BC mainland coast), so I'll let them know there is a new map > out on the area. > Tell them not to plan it for longer than a weekend :-)... There is about 17 km from Deep Cove rental shop (the best launch site, no gates to close at 10 pm like at Barnett park), and up to Granite Falls at the end of the fiord. On weekends it feels like on some highway there, with all those power boats going in the same direction or coming back. I wonder about air quality in Indian Arm in such a smog-potential weather like now, compared to nearby Vancouver areas (Burnaby etc), with usual afternoon *in*flow wind blowing from Burnaby into the Arm. There are no cars or factories on surrounding mountains, but not much ventilation either. Except for natural filtering by forest. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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