Boston Bulldog
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As I was reading through the "Worst Trail Map" thread, I got reminded of the many spiral notebooks of fantasy trailmaps I drew as a kid. Some were totally incomprehensible, with classic features such as a Double Diamond trail running alongside a Green Circle, and others weren't half bad. Typically I liked to draw trailmaps of where my friends and I would go sledding in the winter, from Mikey B's backyard to Lars Anderson Park (Prime sledding territory). Somehow I managed to concoct a ~150 trail Mountain of the sledding routes in the vicinity of the backyard at the house my family had at Sunapee, which I'll try to post, if I can find it.
The maps may not be the best, but the effort I put into it makes me laugh; the map had to be PERFECT in order to capture the "feel" of the "mountain":lol:. I would always do the first draft in pencil in order to make any expansions and revisions to the map, and then fill in each trail in pen with the corresponding color and rating. The hardest part was finding room to label the trails, and I never really mastered the correct technique of making glades.
I thought I was totally alone in doing this, but apparently many others here have done so. Who else did this/still does, and is possibly willing to share a few? Sometimes its fun to look at maps that are outside of the Niehues standard:lol::lol: I'll try and post a few of mine.
The maps may not be the best, but the effort I put into it makes me laugh; the map had to be PERFECT in order to capture the "feel" of the "mountain":lol:. I would always do the first draft in pencil in order to make any expansions and revisions to the map, and then fill in each trail in pen with the corresponding color and rating. The hardest part was finding room to label the trails, and I never really mastered the correct technique of making glades.
I thought I was totally alone in doing this, but apparently many others here have done so. Who else did this/still does, and is possibly willing to share a few? Sometimes its fun to look at maps that are outside of the Niehues standard:lol::lol: I'll try and post a few of mine.
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