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Maps & Routes
Between the snow and the midges, the Cairngorms offer a narrow window each May for long walks on the high plateau. Planning a route for that window means reading the maps for ground that the maps do not quite describe.
Skills
Before a four-day route through the Glass Mountains of west Texas, Wendell Foss spent an evening at his kitchen table identifying every dependable spring on a 1973 USGS quadrangle. Six of seven were still flowing in May.
Maps & Routes
The Bob Marshall Wilderness has no roads, no marked trails on its inner ridges, and few reliable water sources after July. A four-day route through the western end requires real planning, in pencil, before anyone laces a boot.