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Wilderness Camping 'How To' Section,
Introduction and Table of Contents

This section of the canoebase.com website was developed to offer some hints and tips on canoe camping in the wilderness. It is not intended to ever be an all-inclusive information source for canoe expeditioning. There are several good books that cover the topic pretty well, as well as some other, more recent info available on the Web. We plan to only provide information on topics in selected areas in which we have not seen good material elsewhere.

At first a large part of this section will be some basics of map and GPS coordinates and using them in the wilderness. It will not tell you how to use your GPS, or how to interface your unknown (to me) GPS with your (also) unknown computer, cable, and software. You will be working with coordinates here, but on paper for now, not on your GPS. Figuring out how to put a coordinate that the GPS gives you onto a map. Some actual GPS coordinates for the trips listed here are in the respective trip sections (an example is the NBL Waypoints Page), and many small sections of maps will also eventually be available in the trips section so you can practice with both waypoints and maps.

The pages found here:

  1. Wilderness Canoe Camping
    1. Researching a Trip
    2. Doing Fly-In Wilderness Canoe Trips
    3. Dealing With the Rain
      • Keeping Gore-Tex Raingear Waterproof (How it works, and it's care)
        • Gore-Tex Basics (Garment construction, selection, and more)
    4. Dealing With the Bugs
    5. Trip Costs
    6. Metric/US conversions
      • ASCII text version of metric conversions (or a one page version)
    7. Wilderness Camping Area Hot Links Page
  2. Maps, Coordinates, and GPS
    1. Handling Maps
    2. GPS Coordinate Explanation
    3. Basic UTM Coordinate Explanation
    4. Where the UTM Acronym Comes From
    5. GPS and Map Accuracy
    6. Selective Availability
    7. Gardown Software Information Page

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