My first edition of topographic hiking maps for Mt. Edziza
Provincial Park is out.
These maps are at 1:35,000 scale, and are printed on
waterproof, tearproof paper. Each sheet is 11" x 17".
The inspiration of these maps was the difficulty that
hikers have obtaining topographic maps for the park. One
choice is the 1:50,000 NTS sheets (e.g., 104G07), but
these are, for the most part, the provisional
black-and-white editions that have no shaded relief and
have not been updated for decades. Another choice is the
1:20,000 TRIM maps which can be downloaded free of charge
from the BC government, but they call for large sheets of
paper and the cost of printing them for the entire park is
in the hundreds of dollars.
The innovation here is the idea that hikers' maps can be
on small pieces of paper. That is, by printing
them on 11x17 paper, printing costs can be kept low. There
is the accompanying convenience of making the maps easy to
fold, store and carry.
Twenty-eight maps cover the full park from Arctic Lake to
Buckley Lake, as shown below.
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