A new all-in-one map tool has been designed to help professional ski mountaineering guides easily and accurately read topological maps. And it may even be easy enough for your 'average' skier too. Printed in high-contrast red and black, the tool contains all the relevant rules, grids, and avalanche scales commonly used in backcountry travel in the US, Alaska, Canada and Europe. ...It is made of lightweight plastic and fits inside a small book or field guide. The tool, which won a top award for technical design excellence last month in the STC Northern California competition, was drawn with CAD tools, reviewed by mountaineering and avalanche professionals, and calibrated by a professional cartographer.
It is available for sale on the Brooks-Range website and retails for $15.00 US.
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http://www.brooks-range.com/shop/product_info.php/cPath/3/products_id/34
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