Everywhere I've ever camped

[Nick]

As I mentioned in another thread, I keep a personal Google Map and I drop a pin on every spot that I've ever camped. If I've camped there multiple times, it's a purple flag. One time, it's a blue flag. Obviously I'm missing a ton of flags from when I was younger, and some of the early ones I've just placed in the vicinity of where I think I was.

For me, this is a great tool to keep me motivated and especially to keep me exploring new places. It's easy to get in a rut and keep going back to the same awesome places but then you don't get a new pin on the map!

Here's a screenshot of the Utah portion of my map. I have some flags in Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona and Oregon but not very many.

At this zoom level a lot of the flags are hidden behind others, but you get the idea.

Looks like I really need to spend more time in Cedar Mesa!

 

[Tyler]

That's awesome. Like your backpacking weight spread sheet, I'm going to have to copy you on this one.

 

[intuitive cat]

very cool that you are doing this.
I've been starting to create paths for all of my dayhikes & am thinking of going back & creating some for older hikes. at first i was just highlighting areas I've covered on my Nat. Geo. Map for the area.
I've been building an internal map working my way outwards from Boulder & rarely, if ever, hike in the local area in places in which i do not have a previous reference spot. old school explorer style. it is rare that i even look at at map when out on the trail.

 

[HomerJ]

Have you spent anytime in the Unitas?

 

[gloo]

I like this idea too nick. Sure would be quite the project for me to copy it though. Yikes..

 

[Jammer]

Looks like your Trachyte trip is going to "pin" a whole new zone for you!

- Jamal

 

[HomerJ]

I like this idea too nick. Sure would be quite the project for me to copy it though. Yikes..

Sadly, it didn't take me long as I probably have 1/10 of what Nick has... or less.....

 

[Jammer]

I'd love to see a composite of data from all members on here! It would be a great way to see usage patterns at a glance.

BTW -- I have a similar KML file with all the trails I've hiked in southern Utah. I'll see if I can post it later this week.

- Jamal

 

[HomerJ]

LOL! Tyler, you're not suppose to "like" that I have so few pins on my "camped here" map.

 

[HomerJ]

I'd love to see a composite of data from all members on here! It would be a great way to see usage patterns at a glance.

BTW -- I have a similar KML file with all the trails I've hiked in southern Utah. I'll see if I can post it later this week.

- Jamal

I made mine in google earth and then imported the KML file into google maps.

 

[Nick]

Zoom on the western Uintas.

purple = multiple nights at that spot, not necessarily on the same trip

 

[Waynee-ack]

Nice.

I hope to add a few to my map this summer.

 

[Bigred72]

After I read the post I started putting together a map. I also put one for everywhere I've lived which is a lot of places.

 

[Nick]

I was just catching up my 'Everywhere I've Ever Camped Map' and remembered I'd posted a screenshot here. Fun to go back and compared the map from 2 years ago. Still slacking like crazy in southeastern Utah and the Wasatch.

Although I did pickup a bunch in Wyoming that I didn't even bother doing a screenshot of before.

Anyone else keeping a map? It's fun to go back and be able to remember right where a killer campsite is sometimes. Also good to remind yourself you're really neglecting certain areas, as it is in my case.

 

[Aldaron]

I thought I was the only one nerdy enough to do that!

http://www.edarnell.com/spotmap4.html

I also keep a calendar to help me make sure I don't slack off and to help me remember which places to go during certain times of the year.

 

[Jammer]

I was just catching up my 'Everywhere I've Ever Camped Map' ....

You seem to have a void in the Upper Paria area too (and Bryce). Didn't you do a Bull Valley/Sheep Canyon trip?

I have my camps in Google Earth. When I did the master map for my site I decided not to export and include these -- but I should go back and do it just for this thread. That doesn't include my car camps though -- just hikes.

- JG

 

[andyjaggy]

Nice. I have been thinking about getting a big utah map on the wall and doing this, but google maps would certainly be easier. It looks like you need to spend some time in the west desert.

 

[steve]

I need to start doing this.

 

[HomerJ]

I thought I was the only one nerdy enough to do that!

http://www.edarnell.com/spotmap4.html

I also keep a calendar to help me make sure I don't slack off and to help me remember which places to go during certain times of the year.

You've camped just about everywhere!!!! :twothumbs:

 

[HomerJ]

I started mine after @Nick first posted his a while ago.

My "everyplace I've camped" map is only from the past 8 years. There's no way I could remember everywhere I camped as a kid! Looks like I've been neglecting Idaho.