Are you going ridgewalking? Are you a Scouting or other outdoor leadership professional? A hunter? A mountaineer? Do you manage an outdoor sports venue such as adventure races, off-road bike/car/4x4 events, or runs?
Do you "get out there" in a particular area year after year? Does that area fall right on the border between two, four, or even six mapsheets so that you’ve taken to cutting and taping sheets together so you can see the entire area on a single sheet? (Isn't that kind of expensive?) Have you ever had a B&W xerox map fall apart on you in the rain? Are you still working with maps that rip at the slightest provocation? Would you like a particular area enlarged even beyond the 7.5 minute (1:24,000) maps? And isn't it annoying that a xerox copy of a map doesn't have navigation aids on it such as scales, UTM, or Lat-Long grids?
myTopo.com provides the solution to all these problems.
No matter what you're doing in the outdoors, you can benefit from having your own personalized custom maps. At the very least, anyone who returns to the same area on a regular basis will quickly see the advantage to using these maps rather than buying new maps year after year.
myTopo.com provides custom maps that use waterproof ink on special paper. You define and center the area yourself in one of three scales: 1:30k, 1:24k, or 1:15K. You can have your own title put on it, e.g, “Marble Mountains”, and your logo added at no additional charge. Speaking of charges, $14.95 is pretty reasonable for a 24”x 36”map that will take far more abuse than what we’re all using now. You can also get UTM and/or Lat-Long grids or tics overprinted.
And, a portion of the proceeds are donated by myTopo.com to support cave rescue training and operations in the Western Region of the NCRC. So you get a great map and at the same time, you help out the folks you hope you never have to meet on a professional basis in a cave!!