Originally Posted By: hikermor
A small, but often significant point about topo maps. Consider the age of the map...There area also some topo that do not show trails at all accurately; ground truthing must have occurred in a friendly neighborhood bar...


I have topos from the 1950s in my daypack. Last month, rehiking a section of the AT--that was rerouted thirty years ago--another hiker warned me that I was going off-trail. "Oh no: this is where the trail went in the seventies" just kind of threw him off.
We crossed paths a couple of hours later. He wanted to know if I was able to "stay on the old trail"...
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