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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black;background:#EBEBEB'>We’ve been getting quite a few inquiries from prospective 2015 hikers about next season’s mapbooks. Here is the scoop:</span><span style='color:black'><br><br><span style='background:#EBEBEB'>New Mexico – A new book will be printed for 2015. There are new developments in the Carson forest. Possibly some in the Silver City area as well, but that construction may not be finished this year. We have already made one trip down to NM and are going again in late September. I would advise waiting until this winter and getting the new book. The new edition should be ready sometime in November.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><br><br><span style='background:#EBEBEB'>Colorado – no changes.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><br><br><span style='background:#EBEBEB'>Wyoming – no changes.</span><br><br><span style='background:#EBEBEB'>Montana/Idaho – no changes now, but….</span><br><span style='background:#EBEBEB'>There is a fair amount of new trail being constructed in vicinity of Butte, but it won’t be ready until spring. We had hoped it would be finished by now, but it is not. The USFS has suggested that we come up to do the survey early next summer. Our plan is to go up in late June, gather the data, then publish the changed maps and waypoints which we will immediately make available for hikers to download and use. This should work fine for NOBO hikers, who generally don’t make it up there until late summer but it might be a close call for SOBO hikers who get an early start.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jerry Brown <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:bcss@bresnan.net">mailto:bcss@bresnan.net</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="www.bearcreeksurvey.com">www.bearcreeksurvey.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>