This is part 3 of my navigation series. This is the day to day
navigation on the trip.
Enroute I usually use a vinyl map pouch. Each evening when I write
up my log, any map I've finished with goes into a 'done' ziplock,
and the maps I need the next day go into the vinyl pouch. Having a mini biner to clip the map pouch to a pack is a good idea. Not fun to chase a map on a windy lake.
Carrying a chunk of coreplast (corrugated plastic that election
signs are made of when they aren't cardboard) that just fits the
pouch gives you a solid surface to write on.
I write on my maps a lot. With paper maps I use an mechanical
pencil, or a red rollerball pen. I'm not happy with the writing
yet. In a perfect world I could write a fine permanent red line
on a soggy wet map.
"What do you write", you ask.
At night,
