I got one for LC1 (Lost Canyon) today. The permits are in a 4 month range so currently Jan. 1 through May 8, 2019. So the next days permits are opened at midnight. It is always best to be at your phone/computer then to get what you want.
And yes, it will be a massive backlog that I hope be they...
I have Salt Creek pretty much in the can for early May. Of course, until the government opens, permit reservations are not in place until feds are working again. You get a reservation number though. You get your permit on a day-by-day basis for each backcountry campsite (SC1, SC2, SC3, SC4)...
I'm staying with the Garmin 62/64 series and preloading pdf maps from Caltopo on my phone. If I use my phone as a GPS, I will destroy it as I have 2 handheld GPS'es in the past 4 years. My waypoints on my GPS match those on my maps and it works well for me. I truly hate Gaia and even though I...
Any of the Garmin Touchscreen handhelds will do. Montana or Oregon. Montana is the most expensive and is heavy. Satellite reception will be hindered by tree cover to about 16 to 20 feet average. This is the case with my 64ST which normally gets 4 feet in open terrain.
In my case, I found the perp and warned her off. Turns out she was a member of Santa Fe Outdoors (my thing) and just copying off content like topo maps and narratives and then listing them with the local Sierra Club group. I'll inform the Sierra Club if she does it again.
This problem is not an issue with Backcountry Post as far as I know but more in social media than anywhere else. Backcountry Post has too high a profile and The Resources section has the author of each resource listed.
Recently when posting trip reports on my own site and sometimes when I link...