Do you collect trail maps?

[zinger3000]

I could be wrong, but I suppose most people just throw their printed trail map away once they're done skiing for the day. Not me! I always grab a trail map (if available) the first time I visit a ski area, and I keep it afterwards. There's generally no need for me to take one on future visits, since I usually remember the layout pretty well. Sometimes I'll bring my original one along, even though I know I probably won't need to refer to it. I keep them in a larger sized ziploc bag, and will sometimes take a look through them, especially in the summer months while going through withdrawal. My collection is at about 25 right now.

I like it when ski areas have a large trail map board at the bottom or top of key lifts. Saves me the trouble of taking off my gloves and reaching into my pocket.

I know this might sound silly, but sometimes when I'm daydreaming of having trouble falling asleep, images of trail maps, both real and imagined, pop into my mind.

Anyone else with a trail map obsession?

 

[crank]

I've got a chest in the basement full of 'em. May wallpaper a bathroom or something with them someday.

 

[BeanoNYC]

Keep a trail maps app on my phone. I should collect and frame for when I build my man cave, though.

 

[lerops]

Yes. Talking about obsession, I actually mark what I have skied and date the map (do a single one for multiple days, though). So, I grab a new one on my next visit. I love trail maps.

 

[WoodCore]

Sure do! Got quite the collection.

 

[St. Bear]

I like to look at trail maps of western ski resorts, even though I've never skied out West.

 

[bigbog]

Not too many, just the latest year's...in same drawer as my topo maps...

 

[ERJ-145CA]

I always take a trail map from an area the first time I ski it, I have them all in a shoebox with all my old lift tickets and passes. I guess I'm only a couple steps away from being a "horder". I plan to frame a few of the nicer trail maps one day to hang in the family room. I've been planning it for a few years now.

Also my screen saver scrolls through trail maps of all the areas that I have skied.

 

[Watatic Skier]

I've collected quite a few from those rest stops along I-93. The oldest one I have is a Watatic Brochure from 1978-1979 my dad gave me when I used to bug him with a million questions about Watatic when I was little.

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

I frame them and the are hanging in the finished basement....still have a few from utah i have to frame

 

[powhunter]

I could be wrong, but I suppose most people just throw their printed trail map away once they're done skiing for the day. Not me! I always grab a trail map (if available) the first time I visit a ski area, and I keep it afterwards. There's generally no need for me to take one on future visits, since I usually remember the layout pretty well. Sometimes I'll bring my original one along, even though I know I probably won't need to refer to it. I keep them in a larger sized ziploc bag, and will sometimes take a look through them, especially in the summer months while going through withdrawal. My collection is at about 25 right now.

I like it when ski areas have a large trail map board at the bottom or top of key lifts. Saves me the trouble of taking off my gloves and reaching into my pocket.

I know this might sound silly, but sometimes when I'm daydreaming of having trouble falling asleep, images of trail maps, both real and imagined, pop into my mind.

Anyone else with a trail map obsession?

I rode the lift with some guy..maybe 2 years ago at ski sundown and he pulled out a plastic bag of trail maps....was that you??

steveo

 

[zinger3000]

I rode the lift with some guy..maybe 2 years ago at ski sundown and he pulled out a plastic bag of trail maps....was that you??

steveo

Not me. Haven't been to Sundown yet. I don't bring my collecvtion with me.

 

[Newpylong]

trail maps are the best.

 

[Geoff]

I try to live my life paperless these days. If I need a trail map, it's usually a wet, balled-up piece of shredded paper by the end of the day. I discard it. Off-mountain, I look at trail maps online just like everything else in my life.

 

[bobbutts]

I used to always load up on trail maps at rest stops and fast food restaurants as a kid. Not sure what happened to that collection, maybe in a box at my parents house or maybe in a landfill somewhere.. I have a much more modest collection now.

Jeremy at Nelsap has sticked a thread where he's selling some..
Selling brochures on Ebay, check them out!

 

[ski220]

I have/had collected trail maps since I was a kid of 11 or 12. Unfortunately anything prior to about 1983 didn't make it thru the years. Really wish I had those Stowe, Glen Ellen and Mad River Glen maps from 1973. The first time I ever went skiing in Vermont.

 

[skimawk]

I always take a trail map from an area the first time I ski it, I have them all in a shoebox with all my old lift tickets and passes. I guess I'm only a couple steps away from being a "horder". I plan to frame a few of the nicer trail maps one day to hang in the family room. I've been planning it for a few years now.

Also my screen saver scrolls through trail maps of all the areas that I have skied.

My Mom has quite a collection, New England, Canada, Utah, Colorado, Tahoe, Austrila, New Zealand, etc. She has wallpapered her sewing room with them. The ski world all in one room, it's great.

Besides, I think a trail map is the last free item at any ski area!!!!

 

[wintersyndrome]

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[Smellytele]

My oldest son's wall is wallpapered with them/ski tickets and signed ski posters. My wife really thinks it is my wall not his.

 

[tomcat]

In early 90s when I learned to ski I was gung ho and got every trail map I could find at rest stops and such. Now I usually I keep the maps to places I skied and occasionally willl glance at them before a trip if I plan on going to the same area. I still stock up at rest stops but usually toss them out at seasons end unless I skied it. I don't have affordable high speed internet option where I live so I like to keep the gather the paper maps since all of the area websites can be VERY slow for the map to appear on dial up. I usually keep just one lift ticket from an area I ski, throw away the rest.