Maps... I like maps.

[Patrick Corry]

Searching for a long time, I finally found this on eBay. Created by Augustus Phillips of Northeast Harbor, Maine, who made a business of tourist oriented maps and postcards of Maine primarily. Having paddled the Allagash several times spanning 1967 to the present, this one reminds me of great times with my early pals and my son. I made the frame from re-purposed pine salvaged from my farmhouse kitchen which I remodeled a couple of years ago, with a shadow frame on the outside made from an off cut when creating new Spruce inwales for a current 1938 Old Town canoe restoration. I hung it today just in time to impress Santa!

Share your maps please.

 

[samb]

Maps are good. I had my WCPP topo maps about four months before I left the UK for Canada. I had lots of imagining to!

Sam

 

[scoutergriz]

I still have a tube full of my dad's old patrol maps, some date back to WWII and still have the "restricted Ministry of National Defence" labels on them and include many of his notes on undeveloped backcountry campsites and proposed portages

 

[Gamma1214]

I've always intended to frame the overview map of each route I've taken but I haven't done so yet. I'll need more wall space than I currently have but should remedy that in the next few years.

In the meantime, there are always maps (currently for Wabakimi & a local hiking trail) on the coffee table.

 

[Robin]

Nicely done Patrick,


I have these two maps on the door and wall of my shop, when I find myself dreaming of trips I’d like to take, NW Ontario and the North Maine Woods are just a few feet away.

 

[Erica]

Searching for a long time, I finally found this on eBay. Created by Augustus Phillips of Northeast Harbor, Maine, who made a business of tourist oriented maps and postcards of Maine primarily. Having paddled the Allagash several times spanning 1967 to the present, this one reminds me of great times with my early pals and my son. I made the frame from re-purposed pine salvaged from my farmhouse kitchen which I remodeled a couple of years ago, with a shadow frame on the outside made from an off cut when creating new Spruce inwales for a current 1938 Old Town canoe restoration. I hung it today just in time to impress Santa!

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I have scads of maps, drawers full of maps, but none are beautifully framed or mounted. I have to spread them out on the floor for reminiscing or future planning. I mourn the decline of paper maps and am happy to see yours so handsomely displayed.

 

[ABT]

They’re not framed, but I have a couple posted in my shop with my canoes and their related stuff. Sorry for the poor pics, just snapped quickly on my way through this morning.

1) Missouri state parks and historic sites.
2) Ozark National Scenic Riverways (this is the traditional pamphlet that the park puts out with float times, etc., for two decades that same pamphlet is all I remember using to plan trips. Now we use other resources but usually still take one of these to keep up with where we are on the river with no cell service.
3) Rapids of the St. Francis. Since it’s Missouri’s main whitewater river, this map is made by Missouri Whitewater Association and describes all of the main rapids, things to look out for, and the main lines through each.

 

[recped]

One of my favourite maps is the Surficial Geology Map of Canada

https://ostrnrcan-dostrncan.canada.ca/entities/publication/0bddaa23-9445-4156-a541-8bab8de689fc

It's a very large file (pdf) to download

I find it very useful to determine the surface geology of any area you are planning to visit be it exposed rock, eskers & moraines, glacial till etc.

It's also very colourful and just cool to look at.

Here is a section that includes Wabikimi and surrounding area.