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<span style>If possible it would be great to also hear from anyone who used these on the trail:</span><br style><span style>Are the books designed to easily be torn up and mailed with out losing pages from each section?</span><br style>
<span style>How does the paper they are printed on hold up? How is the quality of the LuLu printing?</span>"<div><br></div><div>I used the two books that were available last year, along with Wolf and Ley.</div><div><br>
</div><div>They don't relate to Wolf at all, compare them to Ley. The small maps Wolf puts at the end of his books don't have much detail. The CDTA (Jerry Brown) map books are just maps.</div><div><br></div><div>
They're great, good quality, easier to read than printing Ley at default size (11" x 17" Ley might be better, dunno). And you can be confident that they're accurate. They show some water sources, some other basic things like "there'a pass here". They hold up well, better than normal printer paper, but I still kept them in a ziplock. The print quality is very good. They came with one of those spiral wire binding things, so it was short work with a wire cutter to easily separate out the pages.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think that a person wants to carry Ley anyway, unless you've decided that the particular route that the former CDTA branded as "official" is the only way to go for you. For others (most?), I think you want Ley for the many alternate (purple) routes, as well as the substantial notes that Ley includes on his maps.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You could always carry both, as I did in CO and NM, but that's a lot of paper, and fiddling around, sometimes a bit schizo trying to decide which map to look at. In general I would do a little review of maps each night and if I figured I'd be on the "official" CDT route then I'd keep the CDTA map most handy.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div> Brian Lewis / Gadget</div>