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Old 02-19-10 | 10:09 AM
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Originally Posted by prathmann
It's similar to the situation with using the Adventure Cycling maps which also only cover the preplanned corridor of the route.
Not really, because even though they may cover the preplanned corridor, the Quest still wouldn't be able to fit all the routes for a cross country tour. For a local tour your speaking of...why in the world do you even need a map? I rode all over the mountains of Southern California and the cities like Los Angeles and surrounding areas and never used a map or gps...but in all honesty, I carried a county map when riding the mountains, but I rarely used it, and only if I wanted to venture off the main road onto some small side road to make sure it went somewhere so I could get back to a main road again. But usually I just rode a main road for example to Wrightwood out of Palmdale CA; I could make a huge loop up the Largo Vista rd to Big Pines Hwy to the 2 go E thru Wrightwood down Angeles Crest (2) to Antelope hwy (138) back to Palmdale; no need to read maps for this kind of stuff. Only one time in over 30 years of riding did I get lost and I just asked someone where and how.
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