mastertangler wrote on Dec 30^th, 2010 at 2:53am:

My strategy is something along the lines of this:

I keep what I call my Master list ... a list of everything I can find about an area or park.  Then, when I am mapping out an area that represents my trip plans, I make another file by copying and pasting the "important" things to a new file. 

There are two ways to select items to be copied:  (a) select items in the left window or (b) select items directly from the map.  This process is much quicker if you select groups of items (which can be done on a Windows based system by holding down the SHIFT key while select items ... its a "group" select.  I'm not sure how you'd do this on an Apple ... been decades since I've played with one).

Then you use the Edit menu to copy the selected items.  From here, you open a new file and paste (again using the Edit feature) the selected items to it.  Saving this file at this stage has two advantages.  You can come back to it later or you can continue the copy/paste series by returning to the "master," selecting more items and then re-opening (and pasting) additional selections. 

BTW:  I've created custom icons, smaller than those typically assigned to the waypoints by Mapsource, to reduce screen clutter on my GPS.  But, that's another lesson.

dd

mastertangler wrote on Dec 30^th, 2010 at 3:28pm:

One way of "clearing" waypoints (and thus their icons) from the screen is to create a series of categories into which waypoints are placed.  There are over a dozen generic categories that you can code to be whatever you want.  To view the current list of categories, select EDIT from the menu and PREFERENCES from the pop-up list.  Then look for the Waypoint Categories tab.  You might choose to make the categories something like campsites, portages, pictographs, POI's, wildlife sightings, etc.  In other words, whatever set of categories may sense to you.  Then you can change the waypoint property of individual waypoints to one of the created categories.  Once that's done, you can select a specific category to be displayed (category selection toward the top of the left panel).

To scale down the icons, you can create custom icons (or perhaps find some you can download from the internet).  You should be thinking of a size that is 16 X 16 pixels to get to the "small" category.  I have some that are 6 X 6.  The next step is to find where the Custom Icons have been stored on your computer when you loaded the software.  For a Windows based system this is generally under My Documents in the My Garmin folder.  The last step is to replace the pre-existing custom icons (numbered from 000 - 007 in the Custom Waypoint Symbols folder with your own.  If the new symbol is not already in bmp file format, they should be converted to that format with a graphic editor program.  Once you've done that, you will see the new icons appear at the bottom of the available icons list when you create a new waypoint.  To change an existing icon, you simply change its icon property.

BTW:  You can change the properties (category, icon) of several icons at the same time if you select a group of waypoints and then edit the waypoint property of that group.  (For a Windows based system, you can select an item by clicking on it, a contiguous group by pressing the SHIFT key and dragging over a set of waypoints, or non-contiguous items by pressing the CTRL key and then making a series of individual selections.)

Dang MT, I was in Virginia earlier today. We could have met up for supper. I should have called. If your still in Virginia for lunch I'm doing lunch in Virginia with my WCPP paddling partner from June.

Solotrip wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2011 at 3:30pm:

I think this should read "NOW closed" (see (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links) on Solotripping.com)



dd

db wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2011 at 4:48pm:

The area impacted by closing the Lund Lake EP and the area of the fire is limited to the northeast quadrant of the park, more or less.  Since MT is apparently heading to Red Lake (jump off point for east-side entries), he still has access to (from west to east on the same road) Leano Lake, Onnie Lake and Johnston Lake.  These serve the southern, central and eastern part of the park.

Optionally, much of WCPP is currently served by a wide selection of fly-in options.  This means that he could still reach the intended western section of his route (perhaps Carroll Lake) and paddle south and then east back to his original take-out point at Leano Lake.

dd