I had done the first two days of the TAT in April 2017. Yes, the Carolina Car Guy was desperately unprepared thinking he could do the TAT in April. 2017 was a very heavy snow year in the West and even though I was travelling mid-June, I had closures in Colorado (Marshall and Ophir pass), Idaho (virtually all of the Sawtooth Mountains but that was a combination of washouts caused by snow and snow itself), and Oregon (Windago Pass was still closed late-June). My biggest diversions were due to snow closures. I laminated all the paper maps (and chopped up the roll charts, laminated them too – they had GPS coordinates for each junction, which I thought might be useful if lost – but I never once used them on my crossing). I used GPS for navigation but frequently consulted Sam’s paper maps to get the bigger picture of where I was. There will be mud, flooding, snow, washouts, trees down, etc… that necessitate re-routing. Don’t think that following Sam’s maps is a kind of visionquest that has to be followed to the letter. When you drive the TAT, you have to be prepared for route closures and re-routing. In a couple of places, there were trail closures that obviously had been in place for a long time (a lost bridge in Oklahoma and a logging gate in Oregon immediately come to mind). Most of those revisions were minor and easy to figure out on the fly.
Sam’s maps were pretty well spot on for the entire trip, although there was occasionally a really old trail that he had mapped that now had a more recent alternate route.
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I talked to some TAT bikers enroute who were using the free KevinGPS route and they were definitely covering terrain that was not suitable for jeep travel (i.e., single track biking routes). TAT planning Getting organized for my first Trans-America Trail trip, April 2017. Maps, routing, and re-routingĪs I mentioned earlier, I used Sam Correro’s maps and GPS tracks. I've managed to get all the sections for the trip reports posted over the last couple of months but thought I'd add one more blog with some thoughts about equipment and practicalities of running the TAT. So, one year ago right now I was in final prep mode for taking off on the Trans-America Trail.
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