![]() what are the details of "trip planning" that S&T make so easy? The larger screen you get with S&T on a laptop I appreciate - but what else?Īlso. Sending the maps so created to other users is quick and easy. Since 2011 the way points entered can have their names changed, so I can put in a clients phone number or other information quickly and easily. ![]() Having the ability to "dislike" toll roads (for example) helps me get to the type of road I prefer (i.e. Setting up fuel costs helps with budgeting for my travels. Louis allows me to avoid freeways.īeing able to "drill down" to grid roads is useful to me. Setting exclusion zones for big cities such as St. The ability for me to enter towns at random, then pick a start point and a stop point, and have the program "design" the most efficient way to visit all the spots is great. Typing in the locations, since I'm a reasonably accurate touch typist makes that a breeze.įor me, the ability to store essentially unlimited bread crumb trails is wonderful. Much easier to do now as all mapping programs have been upgrades so much but Delorme is still the best and that's why the US Military uses/used them. The Delorme program worked perfect for it and included all lat/lon numbers and couldn't have made the maps back then without it. I've lost track of how many thousands of miles of trails they have now in our state as we are a little too old to ride hard now. They have a total of 113 trail systems and loops in their 12 chapters in Michigan. Orange and black triangle with a motorcycle image and MCCCT on them attached to trees on their trails. Great people who maintain 1200 miles of trails in the Manistee National Forest alone. Many of the trails/loops are still maintained by the MCCCT org (Michigan Cycle Conservation Club Trails) today. The Manistee National forest is approx 20-50 miles wide E to W and 60 to 80 miles long N to S and is dense forest with lots of lakes and big steep hills. Some of the hills are too steep for vehicles to climb as they are loose beach sand but a properly set up large enough engined trail bike could climb them and in winter about 2/3 of the snowmobiles could clime them once the trail was packed down by going down only with about a dozen or so machines. Full sized vehicles wouldn't get far! The trails were very narrow in some areas between the huge trees etc and we couldn't even get the Geo Tracker thru or a golf cart and it was noted on the maps. Used for motorized trail bikes and snowmobiles mainly but some used them for quads and small vehicle offroading where allowed. ![]() ![]() However, less after they took the book with them so I'm sure it helped. The maps were made and sold for $10 ea booklet to the resort menbers so it would be easy for them to travel the trails without fear of getting lost but some still managed to and we'd have to go look for them. Later added a lot of lat/lon numbers on several of the trails and loops. The pages had added names, reference features, compass readings, plus notes along with all the distances between each breadcrumb or major indentifying feature plus the distances from where one trail would intersect or cross another trail. Then downloaded all the info to the Delorme Street Atlas program on my desktop and printed out 8-1/2 X 11 sheets in B&W of each trail and bound them together in a booklet (47 of them) using the plastic comb binder (38 pages). I did 997 miles over 2 summers of various motorized trailbike trails in the 532,000 acre Manistee National Forest in one approx 15 mile radius from our membership resort using breadcrumbs on the Delorme Street Atlas program on a laptop in our Geo Tracker and also using my Garmin Marine GPS when on our trail bikes or our hopped up golfcart. However, I really don't know how you could directly download all your "breadcrumb" saved trips into Delorme as they seem to use a different architecture.īack in the late 1990's I too on the challenge of mapping trails. Delorme Street Atlas programs do all you have mentioned and so much more. ![]()
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