[pct-l] GPS & Maps

[adrian.borner at ch.abb.com]

I also have the Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx and use City Navigator North America 
for the road and city planning and the US Topo - West for the trails. For 
the off-line planning I use the CD sets available at the PCTA Online Store 
for 39.95$ which also include a basic set of Waypoints.
If you want to have a more detailed route, you can down-load tracks for CA 
Section A to K at http://www.pctmap.net/download/p/trackdl.html (does 
anybody know where I can get tracks for further north?) . They are almost 
a bit too detailed so you may want to use only a sub-set. The advantage 
with loading tracks to the GPS memory card is, that you can load in 
addition to the 50 routes with max 1000 waypoints (in basic memory), 20 
tracks with a total of 10'000 points. By using more than one memory card 
you can basically have as many tracks and points as you want without 
having to load them during your trip.
For my section hike I do this year of approx 600 miles, one memory card is 
all I need.
Happy Trail
Adrian